Lecrin Valley Limpers

The weather this last week has been fantastic, warm and sunny, we were even walking in shorts and T-shirts on Tuesday. Things did not look quite so rosy for our walk on Sunday, with  the  temperatures set to plummet in a cold arctic blast. Our walk was to the Húetor Parque Natural, always a great place to visit.   We awoke to a cloudless sky, and by the time we met up at Cozvijar the temperature was a balmy 3 degrees. We were is such a hurry to get back into the cars that we nearly left Elsa and Maria Jose behind in the carpark. On the drive over to Húetor the views of the snow covered Sierras were superb. The whole range above 2500 metres was white. By the time we met up with the rest of the group for the start of the walk the temperature had fallen to 1 degree. Mike set off like a “bat out of hell”, the ones at the back were running to try and keep up with him. To start with I thought he was trying to get warm but it transpired he was rushing to get ho...

After missing last week's walk due to injury, and thank you to everyone who expressed their sympathy, I was really looking forward to this week’s walk. For those who posted less than sympathetic comments on facebook retribution will be swift and painful. I feel I have done the world a service by discovering a potential major accident area. I just need health and safety to take up my case and I feel sure I should be able to claim compensation.    Sunday was a beautiful day, a cloudless sky, warm sunshine and a great new walk around Lanjaron.  We met in Beznar and then drove over to Lanjaron to meet up with Martin who was our guide for the day.  The local council have recently opened up, and way marked, some new paths in the hills and valleys around the village, and Martin kindly volunteered to show us some of them.  I was surprised to find our group consisted of 23 people all out to enjoy a day's walking  in the hills, particularly as the...

Hi. This week was a little different from normal, we had arranged for Conchi and her nephew to lead the walk down to the Baños in Durcal, and then on to Cueva de Moros which I was looking forward to exploring never having visited before. Unfortunately I sprained my ankle in the middle of the week and was unable to go. So Conchi was promoted to La jeffa in charge. This week the very biased report was written by Mike. What a wonderful day. Not a cloud in the sky, the rain a distant memory, hardly an ounce of breeze, and a lovely senorita to lead us. What more could a body want? Twenty six people pitched up outside Flamboyan to follow Conchi, and she didn't disappoint. We set off at a brisk pace up the Durcal High Street; at the Iglesia San Blas we collected Conchi's nephew and headed off down to the "Agua Medicinales." I've been down this road many times and always finished up at some rather uninspiring, ancient, Arab warm baths. Conchi had other ide...

This week it was our big end of the month walk, I know it was officially the 1st of November but the 2015 Limper calendar said October had 32 days. We had organised 2 walks, an easy walk and a harder walk, in a new area for the Sunday group.  The original plan was that both walks would start off together high above Guejar Sierra. We would follow a superb path along a ridge with views over to Veleta and Mulhacen. At the summit of Catifas the easy group would return back along the path and the hard group would return along a longer, circular path. In the past if we had wanted to do a high altitude walk in this area we needed 4X4s to get us into the mountains, but in the summer the Tuesday group discovered another access point using good roads, mind looking at the pale faces of some of the drivers when we arrived at the car park, they might disagree with the word good. Whilst the road is tarmaced it is narrow , twisty and climbs 900 metres into the mountains.  When ...