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One of my favorite hikes in the northern Sierra Nevada reaches the Cortijos del Hornillo from the Vereda de la Estrella. From here the north faces of the Sierra Nevada look like something from the Alp...
Grumpy old mountain man living in Spain

One of my favorite hikes in the northern Sierra Nevada reaches the Cortijos del Hornillo from the Vereda de la Estrella. From here the north faces of the Sierra Nevada look like something from the Alp...

Heading up the Vereda de Estrella trail on yesterday's hike. This is a wonderful walk, especially with the autumn colors and when the northern faces of Alcazaba 3371m and Mulhacén 3482m have snow on t...

Topical photo for and . A scary looking cat called Sooty who is actually a nice cat and not a vampire. Just caught on an off day 🤣

Arko enjoying his autumn dog walks now that the air is cooler and he has a steady supply of water to swim in

Connected the LilyGo LoRa32 board to the app of an old phone. Now to get a second and then start testing the range it can achieve.

These type of floods happen every autumn but I can't remember a year with the damage and loss as bad as this. Thoughts with all those people affected

And just like that, the "acequias" are starting to flow again above Lanjarón 🙏

Hiking in t shirts and shorts last week. This week it's full on winter layers with a -7 windchill! At 1744 meters on the Peñon del Jorobado in the Sierra de Huetor today with @khusky and @chriswright

Lanjarón this morning from the dog walk. A fine day but rain is forecast this afternoon and for the next few days. Good news for the land. Snow above 2000 meters.

Productive first full day back in Spain 🇪🇸 Homemade granola bars for hiking trips and a large batch of homemade limoncello on the go. Just got to process those magnificent pomegranates

Photos from the Tabernas desert badlands hike I did a few days ago. The whole area is a a chaotic mass of broken rock and battered, crumbling cliffs

A strange thing to come across yesterday whilst hiking in the Taberna's desert badlands of Almeria! Any idea what this was and why it was here? 🤣

@alan @TimKStanton This is the Restaurante Alfaro seen today. It's situated next to the Repsol petrol station at the A92 / Tabernas exit. It was used as the bar/disco in Kaos run by Eddie Izzard. Also...

@lpryszcz Sure. A little hard to figure out the approach when close but its only 25m from the dirt road. https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=19/37.010296/-2.453068

Today I hiked in a place close to my heart and stood in the exact same footsteps as Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach in "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly". This view never fails to stir the senses, I love i...

A very welcome cool 15c on today dog walk. Very autumnal but stunning in the morning light.

Last night I started reading "The Age of Surveillance Capitalism" by Shoshana Zuboff which looks to be a fascinating, topical and insightful read. Anybody read it?

Patagonia Image 4 This image brings back quite emotive memories for me & conveys the full emptiness that is the Southern Patagonian Icecap. Life here is very simple, arrive at camp, build snow walls,...