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Archives for July 2022

Las Campanitas Ridge to Veleta

Published on 26-07-2022 by El Perro Negro
The ridge didn't let our expectations down. It is a magnificent scramble, probably Grade 3 in places. The highlight for me is the spiky pinnacle of Campario which soars like a needle up intto the sky. It is an impressive and intimidating sight.

Camp at Laguna Peñon Negro

Published on 19-07-2022 by El Perro Negro
Yesterday in the heat of the afternoon we made our way uphill to a remote lake, rarely visited, that we had never been to before. Laguna de Peñón Negro.

River Walk with the Dogs

Published on 17-07-2022 by El Perro Negro
What to do during a heatwave. Take the dogs for a river walk of course. Super proud of these two, they both remembered how to swim and seemed to really enjoy it

Threading the Raspones Ridge

Published on 12-07-2022 by El Perro Negro
This was an interesting day. Interesting as it crossed some terrain I have never trodden before, threading the Raspones ridge.

Blurred images and lost opportunities

Published on 04-07-2022 by El Perro Negro
In trying to learn camera techniques to take good landscape images you are bound to have some failures. It's a shame as those failures can sometimes happen in superb mountain settings, resulting in lost opportunities.

Lazy ways to paint the house

Published on 04-07-2022 by El Perro Negro
After many years of neglect our outer walls and cortijo walls have been repaired, re plastered and repainted.

Hard Going on the Tozal del Cartujo ridge

Published on 03-07-2022 by El Perro Negro
A tough return for me to high mountain scrambling on this mountaineering ascent of the north ridge of Tozal del Cartujo in Spain's Sierra Nevada

Wet and Windy in the San Juan Valley

Published on 03-07-2022 by El Perro Negro
A very unseasonal hiking day in Spain's Sierra Nevada which brought welcome relief from the heat of the lower villages