Walk 1st July

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Lecrin Valley Limper

Dear Limper

Our walk this last Sunday was a return to one of our summer favourites, and judging by the approval ratings, it must rank amongst best of the best. The problem with the approval ratings system we have, is that after nearly every walk someone will say " I enjoyed that, it's my favourite" and everyone agrees, so can someone please devise a points system, so we all know which is the best walk. We met in the car park in Niguelas, and I was quite surprised at the large turnout, 18 eager souls wanting to go and play in the river, and of course you always get one who comes home wet. The walk starts down by the recreation area and follows the Rio Durcal as it twists and turns its way in a steep sided canyon. You follow an Acequia on the left of the canyon to start with, before walking in the river and passing a magnificent waterfall, it was the best I have ever seen it. 12 months ago after a violent thunderstorm, the riverbed was totally altered and the river disappeared. I am now glad to report that while things are different the river as returned and once again you have a wonderful cool, shady, summer walk. The one thing that as always stopped the walk continuing for more than about 3km is a very large bolder about 10 meters high with water coming over, but now Rob (Spiderman) who climbed up the rock, recons we can put a rope ladder up, opening the possibility of turning the walk into a circular one. I can feel my explorer’s hat coming out again. On our way back we stopped off at the waterfall, someone suggested to little John if he stood behind it, he would not get wet! What a plonker!! In an effort to try and rebuild his self-esteem, I suggested that he lead the group on a slight diversion though a tunnel, would he do, No he would not. It was left to a group of women to show him how it was done. This will have to be noted in the minutes as the second Milton refusal.

The tapa this weekend was hosted by Deborah, and what a spectacular do it was, with a BBQ, Paella and salads a plenty, there was even a pork pie, big enough to feed everyone, except a little guy was found to have had three pieces, He never refuses anything were food is concerned. What a great day out we all had, thank you to everyone.

Plan A for this coming Sunday the 1st of July was Veleta from the Ski resort, but I have been unable to get up to date information with regard to the ski lift. So we go with Plan B, which is a circular walk from Capileira, and takes us to the hydro station at La Cebadilla in the Poqueria gorge. The walk is written up as 7km long with 300 meters of ascent and decent, with the hardest part coming at the end as we climb out of the gorge. But you do get an opportunity to paddle in the river before hand. We are now moving into the warmest part of the year so we have no option but to start the walks earlier and go higher, so meet outside the Acropolis bar in Mondujar at 8am, for the drive into the Alpujarras. This is a wonderful walk and the views are superb, the tracks are not steep or difficult, There is no tapa arranged so plan to stop in a bar somewhere. The spell and grammar checker is on holiday this week so apologises for any errors you may have found. I am experiencing Internet access problems this week so no photos, yet. Telefonica was informed that I would be switching broadband supplier, so they promptly cut me off, before the new company had provided their equipment. The promise was I would be without the Internet for 5 minutes whilst the new equipment was been installed. They must have forgotten to mention, the week you have to wait for the equipment.

Have a good week

Stuart

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