Walk 24 September 2017 Huetor

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This week we had arranged two walks, an easy one with Hilary to Beznar and a harder one in Huetor.
The harder walk started from the exit 259 on the A92 motorway, and we had arranged to meet up with the Granada contingent there at 9.40. How was I supposed to know that the motorway was reduced to a single carriageway and you had to go nearly to Guadix to turn around. Yes, they are resurfacing the road and they have closed the exits off, making a 27 km detour to get to our meeting point. At least everyone else was late in arriving as we all had to take the diversion.
 With everyone assembled, goodness knows how many are still driving up to Barcelona trying to find somewhere to turn around, we set off on our walk, under a deep blue sky and the temperature was perfect.
For the first couple of kms the path follows an easy 4X4 track. We then picked up the first of the advertised steep climbs, it’s all in the forest and a delightful path that turns and twists about as it makes it’s way up the hillside.
 We stopped at the top to recover and take a quick snack after I heard the “I am hungry” chant, behind me.  
 Moving along again we followed various tracks and paths to the next advertised steep climb. I thought this might be the killer and I was expecting a load of moans and groans behind me. But no, all I heard was “was that it” when we got to the top. What a super fit group we had this week and as most of the group were wearing blue we were well coordinated.
 After finding some suitable rocks with both sun and shade we stopped for lunch.
 From here it’s an easy downhill walk back to the cars. Well, it was for everyone except Rafa who had to be extracted from a bush after undertaking an unscheduled flying lesson.
 Arriving back at the cars it was decided to go for a drink, subject to being able to find our way back onto and off the motorway.
An excellent day out.

We walked 15 km and climbed 480 metres.

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