The rock climbing at Naranjito, Peña Cabrera just west of the town of Diezma is accessible on good clean rock with 70 routes of all grades from 4 upwards. It is south facing so gives pleasant climbing outside the summer months. Access is very easy as the crag is just north of the A92 between [...]
Sometimes you need to do a bit of lateral thinking for your mountain adventures. We might be only two hours from the sun drenched beaches of the Costa del Sol, but there is still some good mountaineering sport to be found. An early alpine start is the chief requirement. The snows are still quite plentiful [...]
Mar 142011
The first half of winter brings with it mainly difficult mountains conditions. High winds, low temperatures and deep snows become the norm. In 2010 we didn’t manage to ascend Mulhacen until late February, such was the ferocity and consistency of the bad weather. But, how have we fared this year? The winter so far hasn’t [...]
An experienced 50 year old mountaineer lost his life on Sunday after slipping and falling in the Corral del Veleta area in the Sierra Nevada. The man who was a resident of Granada, was rescued early morning yesterday by the Mountain Rescue and Intervention (Sereim) of the Guardia Civil. The alert came when a fellow [...]
Nov 222010
According to the promoters of the project, which has received an incentive of 393,000 euros from the Ministry of Economy, Innovation and Science, the current prediction methods are limited to the extent that using historical studies with satellite measurements of crustal movements Earth and measures of stress in its interior, scientists can determine when an earthquake [...]
The (FISU) met in Brussels last week and granted the 2015 Winter Universiade to the Spanish City of Granada and the Sierra Nevada mountains. Spain who have already hosted the Winter Universiade twice both in 1981 & 1995 will welcome the University Games back in 2015 when the legendary Sierra Nevada will make the perfect [...]
Bad news for local businesses in the Sierra Nevada! Low cost airline Ryanair has been accused of holding Granada to ransom after it was revealed the company is asking for more money to continue flying into the city. Currently, the Ryanair website is not offering flights to either Stanstead or East Midlands from Granada after [...]
We recorded the following observations from our weather station: Low….. 9.2 (May 07……9.4) High….. 26.0 (May 07…..31.8) Ave Low….. 12.8 (May 07…..13.8) Ave High….. 22.7 (May 07…..24.8) Rainfall….. (mm) 22 (May 07…..47) Rainfall….. (days) 3 (May 07…..6) Full details of all the reading since May 2005 can be found on Spanish Highs Weather Records webpage
So there we were, loaded up with 5 days of equipment and food. Richard, of Spanish Highs Mountain Guides, dropped us off at the trailhead near the Ventura Hut at 2250m above the town of Lanjaron in the Alpujarra region of Andalucia, Spain. The skies were blue and clear as we made our way onwards. [...]
May 192008
Unbelievable but true. About a foot of new snow overnight down to 2400m and its 19th May! We started off from a snowy Hoya de la Mora at 9am and headed south for Veleta before donning snowshoes and dropping down leftwards into the San Juan bowl. Good job we had the snowshoes on as the [...]
