Walk 16 April 2017 from the Carretera de Cabra

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This week we had a short, easy walk starting off from the Carretera de Cabra road. I say easy advisedly here as there were a couple of tricky sections.
 We met at the BP in Cozvijar and then drove on  to The Repsol in Padul to look for anyone looking fit enough to go for a walk. After driving around the carpark in a convoy we came across Mark and Anne who followed us to the start of the walk.
 The walk started on a nice level track through the campo. You don’t have to walk far before you come across an unusual sight in Spain, Pigeon lofts, I kid you not. It only needed a man with a flat cap and a Whippet,  heading for the pit and I could have been at home, well, the blue sky and the yellow T shirt would have to go. We walked on, passing Orchids and other spring flowers.
 Now we know this route quite well having walked in this area a number of times, but in an effort to shorten the path a bit, because we had Jan and Martine’s grandchildren with us, I had found a link path on the map which would save us about 3 km. What it didn’t show was that the local kids had turned the path into a scramble track. So on the two steepest sections of the route we were slipping and sliding about on a rubble moto X route. I did notice a few folk going A over T down the hillside but no serious damage was done.  The return path is in a steep sided barranco, it’s a delight, with a bit of rock scrambling thrown in. We stopped for lunch near the top of the barranco, after this it was a short walk back to the cars.
A good walk but a little difficult in places.

In the afternoon we all went round to Jan and Martine’s for tapas.

We walked 11.6 kms and climbed 299 metres

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