Lecrin Valley Limpers

My idea this to keep cool this week was to go high. It worked a treat, we had a nice breeze and temperatures were around 23 degrees. There were only 5 of us at the roundabout in Beznar so we all managed to fit into 1 car for the drive up to Hoya del Portillo. This is as far as you can drive  when you are going up Mulhacen.  The walk starts by following a track through the forest before coming out on the moor where it picks up the Porqueira refugio track. We weren’t going to the refugio this time but the path offers an easy way to gain most of the walk’s altitude. The highest point of the walk is 2700 metres at the Mulhacen bus stop. From here it’s all down hill, well downhill except for the couple of little climbs, one to our lunch spot to some very comfy rocks with superb views over to Mulhacen and Veleta. The other was a scramble to the peak of Prado Llano, not the ski village but it did give me an idea for next Sunday’s walk. It was only as we approached the car that it

This week we went for a river walk in the Rio Dilar. In an effort to keep cool we had an early, 8.30 start from Cozvijar and by the time we had all met up in Dilar there were 17 of us, so not a bad turn out. The walk is very easy, no hills to climb and no chance of getting lost as the path follows the river, crossing it many times. Normally the river reaches up to your knees but, due to the lack of water and that someone had been placed stepping stones in it, the water hardly came over your ankles. I later heard that some in the group managed to get there and back without getting their feet wet. If you know the names of anyone who kept their feet dry just let me know and I will cross them off the email list on the next wet walk, they obviously don’t need the river to keep themselves cool.  I am not going to slop about with wet feet for 10 km, whilst walking next to a guy who hasn’t even taken his socks off. As it is such an easy walk, I was quite happy for others in the