Lecrin Valley Limpers

This week we went to the Ermita in Pinos del Valle. The start of the walk was on a new track to me, it was discovered by Jan earlier this year. Just to make sure he got all the plaudits for discovering the new track I made sure everyone knew about his discovery before the start of the walk. This also absolved me of any comeback if things went wrong.  The walk started from the carpark by the side of the Beznar dam and followed the road across the dam wall. It’s like looking into the bowels of the earth when you look over the side.  At the far side we took a campo road that headed up the hillside. The path was a delight as it made its way in and out of the orange and olive groves, along acequia and finally meeting a concrete road, which we followed up hill until we met the Guájar Faragúit road. Rene and Hilary decided this was a good place to say goodbye to us and make their own way back, I suspect they were heading for the bar Venecia in Pinos. It was not an idea...

Hi This week we had planned to do a circular walk around Cerro Huenes above Cumbres Verde, the walk we had postponed from the week before. The problem was the weather forecast, it was predicting rain but they had been saying that all week and nothing came of it, so we went armed with a couple of backup plans. Setting of from Cozvijar to drive to Cumbres Verde the weather looked promising with high broken cloud and some sunshine but by the time we arrived the clouds were gathering around the hills and it looked like we might get wet if we stayed out too long.  I decided to put plan C into action, this was a circular walk to Boca de la Pesca and there were  lots of possibilities to shorten the route if conditions deteriorated.    We had not been walking long when we came to a chain across the farm track we were on, and a notice saying “No pasar”, or you will be shot. Now we have done this walk a number of times in the past and we have never seen the n...

This week we had a local walk that started above Pinos del Valle. We had a convoy of 5 cars for the 4km drive on a compo road to the start of the walk. There were a few complaints from some of the drivers about the state of the road, but we all arrived at the start of the walk safe and well. Once again Dave was leading this easy circular walk but, after a couple of kms, I decided to reduce the pressure he was under and took over at the front. We had only gone about 1 km when Dave announced we had taken a wrong turn. I shrugged this damning criticism off as a training exercise for him, I don’t think anyone else noticed my error.  Returning back along the track we picked up the right path and continued the climb up on to the ridge. From here the views opened up over Los Guajares and down to the coast, up until now our views were of the Sierra Nevada, well what we believed to be the Sierra Nevada as they were covered in low clouds, which increasingly were getting darker...