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Mt Fitzroy (Chalten) 3405m.
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I'm back in the UK visiting friends and family pre xmas. It's cold, grey, damp and frankly, quite depressing. Having said that the local village pubs are warm, welcoming and offer some lovely tasting and wonderfully inventive cask beers such as this 😃
It's bank holiday here in Spain so we knew many of the popular walks would be busy. Instead we drove 15 minutes to a town called Chite, which we had never visited before. Had beautiful hike through lush forests and lakeside (Embalse de Beznar). A glorious 2 hour, 7km circular walk that ended at the bar in Chite.
Amazing what's on your doorstep that can sometimes get overlooked!
This is amazing. Spotted these walls half way up a vertical cliff in the Tajos de Bermejales. Who built them and why?
From Wikipedia ...
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Neolithic people lived in the canyon 5,000 years ago, sheltering under its overhanging walls and using the river as source of food. There are traces of these early settlers on the canyon walls about 10 metres above the present river level. Some of the walls they built to enclose the cavities in the canyon wall are still visible.
Not into self promotion but this is the 7th anniversary of the publication of my guidebook to Spain's Sierra Nevada. Can't believe how time has flown by.
They say everybody has a book in them, I guess this was mine. Quite hard writing a guidebook. You have to remain factual not flowery, keep stories short & relevant etc.
Yes, I get some royalties, cup of coffee for every book sold, but truth is that this was a labor of love, not for reward. My way to spread the word about these mountains.
Some more photos from our trip this week down the Barranco de Tajos Bermejales. A very interesting hiking route with twists and turns, ups and downs and a few surprising features. Be prepared for some wobbly wire bridges, deep undergrowth, ladders, rungs and short sections of very easy scrambling, safeguarded by dodgy fixed ropes. Great stuff and recommended that you visit.
On certain sections of the Tajos de Bermejales gorge hike there are ropes to assist in descent or ascent. Have to say though that taking to the rocks direct seemed a much safer alternative 😀 . The first photo looks like Edward Whymper's rope that he last used on the Matterhorn in 1865!
The lower section of the Tajos de Bermejales gorge. A magical place!
Being a keen photographer, that doesn't do "selfies", I don't get in photos much. I do love this one though taken yesterday by @khusky.
I'm on a rikkety bridge over a small river with huge rock walls towering above and a very colorful scene upstream. The Tajos de Bermejales gorge, near Granada
Off for a walk to visit the Tajos de Bermejales gorge. Strange to be getting my stuff ready and putting on shorts on 1st December. 14C now and 22C expected.
I find the Garmin Explore website incredibly slow and buggy. Seems like it hasn't improved in years. For a company that has some of the best backpacking/hiking aids when on the trail, this isn't good enough.
This has been a gripe of mine for many years and to be honest has stopped me from buying more Garmin gadgets (watches etc)
Anybody else feel the same or is it just me being a grumpy old man? 😀
No 25 on the list of "what to do with all the lemons" is ... making Lemon Curd. Done!😃
"You can see the pub from here" 😃 well maybe not the pub, but you can almost make out my house.
An unusual image showing the location of the town of Lanjarón (700m) nestled on a small hillside. The Tajos Colorao cliffs are beyond with the Lanjaron valley dropping down to the Rules dam and eventually the Mediterranean sea.
I know it's not anymore but this was taken yesterday morning on a local dog walk with some friends.
A big sky view with the mountains of the Sierra de Almijara and Malaga province in the distance.
This quiet dirt road reaches 1700m altitude above the town of Lanjarón in the Alpujarras and has been recently renovated.
Hard to believe this is December!
Arko certainly enjoyed his time splashing around the waters edges
Today we've been walking down the lower Rio Guadalfeo as it approaches the Mediterranean sea at the Costa Tropical. A very different environment to what we are used to. These images almost remind me of some gentle pastoral scenes from the UK.
I feel very privileged. Today we spent over an hour in the presence of two very rare Bearded Vultures (Quebrantahuesos/Lammengeier).
They rode the thermals, dropping bones to extract the marrow. The process repeated itself throughout the encounter. This mating pair from Cazorla seemed to be really enjoying themselves and certainly put on a display for us. A rare treat for us to see.
I've travelled this road from the Sierra Nevada mountains down to the village of Nigüelas many times. The final kilometers enter a spectacular gorge, but the light has never been right for an image. Either no shadow in early morning or directly into the sun late afternoon. Frustrating.
Today though, I was lucky. I arrived there with some beautiful light conditions. It's a dramatic place!
I love the sunsets at this time of year.
After a month of marinating some of our lemons in alcohol, today I completed the final steps and added sugar water before bottling. Home made Limoncello. Salud!
