Lecrin Valley Limpers

This week we had 2 walks organised a tough one and an easy one. The tough group met in Durcal and had a short drive to the start of the walk above the Hydro electric station. Since we last did this walk 3 years ago the route has been upgraded to a PR local path, with yellow and white waymarking signs. An excellent choice as the views are superb and it’s good to see the medio ambiente putting some effort into promoting these paths. It’s not a difficult climb, just steady away, for 2 hours as you slowly zig zag back and forth following the line of the water tube for the hydro. I have to appologise to Jim at this point as I had promised him we would see the tubo, but it was not to be. Someone has been working very hard covering it in. Talk about breaking rocks, I don’t know what the poor sods had done to get that job. After two hours and with most of the climbing done you arrive at the casita del agua a little house where someone used to live and controlled the water going d...

Check out the details for the BBQ Sunday 5 June Check out the details for the walk to Cerro del Caballo 12 June. After last week's wet walk in Huescar, this week we had an easy walk from Orgiva in glorious sunshine.  The walk started from the outskirts of the town and headed down to the river. After all the rain we have had it was wonderful to get out, stretch our legs and enjoy the superb views of the snow covered Sierras.  The path continued alongside the river passing the Hippy encampment, fortunately they were at the other side of the river. After about 4 km and having left the great unwashed behind us we stopped to enjoy the peace and solitude in this unknown and for me the best part of Orgiva.  Resuming our walk we had an easy climb up to the acequia that we were going to follow back into the town. This is a great track to walk along as it is shaded by trees most of the way. There was a multitude of wildflowers and the birds were singing with...

The 7 and 8 May was our annual weekend away and this year we went to Husecar. We have gone away the same weekend for the past 3 years and the weather has been perfect, this year the forecast was not promising. We had planned for a walk on the Saturday and to explore some of the  archaeological  sites in the area on the Sunday. By Friday morning the forecast was for heavy rain on the Saturday with an improvement for Sunday. So I decided to swop things around and do the archaeological tour on the Saturday as we could alway seek shelter in the museums and bars we planned to visit. Driving up on Saturday morning in our 8 car convoy the conditions were miserable with rain and fog, I felt smug that we had made the right choice. We had a guided visit booked at 10.45 at the Centro de Interpretación del Megalitismo in Gorafe. But first we had a breakfast stop planned at a little bar on the autovia, it was closed. My smugness took a dip and I could see what everyone was th...

This week we had a local circular walk from Melegis. I thought it would be impossible to lose anyone, after all we all live here. The walk started with an important presentation ceremony. Mike had commissioned a  plaque to be made by Marcel for Conchi, the winner of the 2015 Brownie points competition.  The walk started from the Puerta del Valle bar and headed off through the orange groves towards the castle. I know there are some bad feelings about this castle from the folks that live in Melegis, one citizen of the pueblo even tried to impose an entrance fee, but the fact remains it is officially recognised as Murchas castle which means it belongs to us, the good people  of  Lecrin. We had not been there long when we were invaded by a horde of marauding Cristianos, we surrendered without a fight, not wanting to put the women and children into slavery. The walk continued to Muchas then along to Chite. There are not many streets in the village and it is...