17 May 2015 Cerro Aguila

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This week we walked up a hill to look at the Eagles.
It’s been a very hot week in the valley, with temperatures up to 39 degrees in Granada, so we wanted somewhere with a cooling breeze. To try and cool things down a bit the town hall had switched on all the wind turbines in the valley. This had an immediate effect, there was a nice cool wind blowing up on the carretera de Cabra, I nearly regretted putting my shorts on. Why they can’t turn them round and have warm air blowing up from the coast in the winter is beyond me.
The walks starts up near to the Venta del Fraile bar and follows a campo road for about 1km. After the easy road section the path heads uphill steeply into the forest. There looks to be a lot of footpaths to choose from but, in fact, they are all wild boar tracks that appear and then quickly disappear. It is just a matter of heading upwards until you get to where all the tracks converge at a dried up pond, where all the pigs meet after a spot of rain.
From here it is only a short walk up to Cerro Aguila. This part of the walk calls for silence as we need to sneak up on the Eagles as they survey the valley from their lofty perches. The group were making so much noise I had to shout at them to be quiet.
Needless to say by the time we arrived at the top the Eagles were long gone, the only thing up there was a sacrificial doll we found hanging in a tree.
After our failed attempt to find the Eagles we headed down and then up another hill for our picnic with views over the Lecrin Valley.
After lunch we took a very easy path that follows a barranco back to the cars,  

We walked 8.9 km and climbed 456 metres.

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