Note – 2026-04-17 16:25
Out hiking today with a Solos group from the UK who were enjoying the warm sun and stunning scenery of the Taha del Pitres. Hiked from Fondales to Ferrierola and onwards to Busquistar, and Portugos. A...
Tag: hiking
Note – 2026-04-05 08:47
@ives very pleasant hiking temperatures. Daytime, 15-20C with a cooling breeze. Perfect
Note – 2026-04-05 07:29
Images from our Tabernas desert hike last Friday. I never fail to be inspired by this landscape and can see why it is used so much by the movie industry, set only some 25km inland from Almeria city.
Note – 2026-04-04 07:30
Yesterday we were hiking in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood in this amazing place
Note – 2026-04-03 16:37
Sometimes driving in Spain is so relaxing. Today at 9am we headed south from Guadix to Tabernas on the A-92 motorway. 80 kilometres of motorway on an Easter bank holiday. I kept to the speed limit but...
Note – 2026-04-01 15:40
Yesterdays fine hike in the quiet and underrated Sierra de Huetor just north of Granada. Lots of interesting mountains, hillsides and forested areas.
Note – 2026-03-25 16:48
No, its not the Namibian desert. It's the Duna de Bolonia. "Hundreds of thousands of small, stinging grains of sand travelling at warp factor 4 directly into the face for the next 45 minutes wasn’t wh...
Note – 2026-03-24 17:47
I am losing it. Who'd come on a holiday which involved hiking up hills and forget their .... hiking shoes? Especially when I have checklists to remind me to do a checklist, so why oh why do I then for...
Note – 2026-03-23 07:02
We're heading west today for a week. Going to watch the bird migration from Africa to Europe through the Straits of Gibraltar. Then we'll be beach bums on the Atlantic coast for a while. Some culture/...
Note – 2026-03-18 07:02
Its a white, very white world! From yesterdays excursion on Veleta 3394m in the Sierra Nevada
Note – 2026-03-01 10:29
View from the morning dog walk looking down the deep valley of the Rio Lanjarón. The cliffs of the Tajos del Colorado are to the left and small cortijos (outlying settlements of Lanjarón) on the sunli...
Note – 2026-02-28 10:46
The stunning winter mountain scenery of the upper Lanjaron valley looking towards the peak of Veleta 3394m. Taken from the Cerro de Caballo summit 3009m, a few days ago.
Note – 2026-02-27 10:34
@jpoesen I totally agree, and the Milos only communicate up to 600m. Costs 200GBP! My own radios cost under 50€ and I'm communicating up to 12km. Text only though. For most mountain voice communicatio...
Note – 2026-02-27 09:52
Oh no, another new gadget I might have to invest in! 🤣 https://www.okmilo.com/
Note – 2026-02-25 10:59
Entertaining hike yesterday following a circular trail up the peak of Peñabon 2000m, overlooking Trevélez. Beautiful vistas to the Sierra Nevada. Trevélez is one of the highest villages in Spain and i...
Note – 2026-02-18 10:59
Always nice to discover a new hiking area, especially after 24 years. Yesterday we did a circular walk around the hills surrounding the village of Lagos near Motril, on the southern slopes of the Sier...
Note – 2026-02-18 07:12
At stake is the question of when personal judgement and risk-taking become a matter of criminal liability. If the climber is found guilty it could mean "a paradigm shift for mountain sports", says Aus...
Note – 2026-02-16 10:53
The Cerro de Caballo (3009m) in Spain's Sierra Nevada doesn't look like it's summit is 2400m vertical above the town of Lanjarón in the Alpujarra. Its deceptive, but nevertheless a lovely mountain tha...
Note – 2026-02-10 07:56
Andy Kirkpatrick - Pacing Beads - A 3,000 word study "In this short article, I thought I’d run with a small detail of navigation, something most people don’t use, but they should, and see where we get...