Note – 2026-06-11 07:42
2/ Above the Embalse de Bachimaña Alto we met snowfields and rising before us was the chain of mountain peaks marking the border with France. Easiest crossing seems to be the Puerto de Marcadeau leadi...
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Note – 2026-06-11 07:36
1/ Some images from yesterdays hike up to the Embalse de Bachinaña Alto in the Pyrenees. Starts from Baños de Panticosa. This is an interesting and dramatic ascent to the lake alongside tumbling water...
Note – 2026-06-07 05:52
Early morning view from our campsite alongside a small lake in the Respomuso area of the Central Pyrenees. The mountains shown form the border with France.
Note – 2026-05-22 07:37
Morning Fediverse! The sun was just hitting the "acequia" channel this morning and provided some very interesting light
Note – 2026-05-19 16:23
Things don't always work out as planned. Nature always wins eh? Today I had packed my high mountain gear ready for a snow day but our dirt road into the high mountains was blocked by a landslide. Inst...
Note – 2026-05-15 06:45
View on the way to "work 🤣" yesterday! Pampaneira town with Capileira outlined on the higher shoulder above the Poqueira Gorge. The peak of Veleta (3394m) in the Sierra Nevada beyond.
Note – 2026-05-15 06:39
Taking a photography group through the "Pueblos Blancos" villages of Capileira, Bubion and Pampaneira yesterday. So, guess what? Here's some images of white village scenes 😂
Note – 2026-05-14 06:38
Barranquismo (Canyoning) looks fun. This guy certainly seemed to be enjoying it as he descended the waterfall at Tajo Cortes, Rio Bermejo, Alpujarra yesterday. I've spent a lifetime trying to avoid sl...
Note – 2026-05-14 06:35
Sorry I'm a bit late for as I didn't get back yesterday until late. Here are the spectacular Tajo de Cortes of the Rio Bermejo, Alpujarras
Note – 2026-05-12 07:41
This week I'm having to leave my comfortable status of retirement and actually "work". Yes, it's true! I'm guiding a photography group led, by Andrew Scriven, around the Alpujarras, searching out phot...
Note – 2026-05-08 06:59
A piece of film history, then and now, 60+ years apart. Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach in "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" at a place we know as Crocodile rock in the spectacular Tabernas badlands of A...
Note – 2026-05-07 07:47
2/ And what a place to sit and eat ones lunch! Upper Lanjaron Valley, Sierra Nevada,
Note – 2026-05-07 07:44
1/ Tough hike but what a day, still buzzing! Sometimes I don't think we fully appreciate just how much raw, untamed beauty and wildness we have so close to our homes. Saw nobody all day. Gotta go back...
Note – 2026-05-06 09:36
The savage beauty of a mountain river in the springtime. Contrast with the summer months when it's simple to cross using stepping stones.
Note – 2026-05-06 08:53
Just one of the many spectacular waterfalls we passed on yesterdays hike up into the upper Lanjarón valley, Sierra Nevada, Spain
Note – 2026-05-03 09:19
Oh what a tangled web we weave. Spiders web covered in droplets of morning dew
Note – 2026-05-03 08:59
A local road winding it's way through the lush woods. A gray day in Lanjaron, Alpujarras today
Note – 2026-04-26 08:39
Our local "acequia" has now been repaired and for the first time in 3 months we have flowing channels and irrigation water. The hillsides are now full of life again and wonderful places to go for a lo...