We had a very cold day walking up Veleta this week. We arrived at the car park to find it under snow but sunny, within minutes of leaving the car the sun disappeared behind clouds and never came out again that day. We put on snowshoes as the snow was so deep we couldn’t walk [...]
A very cold day up Veleta
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Dec 092008
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This week some good friends of mine Rosi and Mike have been out for a holiday with their two young daughters Sarah and Rachel, unfortunately the weather has not been too kind to them but we did manage to get a day in the snow on Thursday. We went up to the Sierra Nevada and [...]
3 day outing into the Sierra Nevada
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Sep 052008
Day 1 Leaving Lanjaron just after midday we drove to the ranger station above Capileira. There were 6 of us, Richard, Paul, Kate, Jackie, Nick and me. Moving up through the forest and onto the open slopes above the forest we proceeded on the long, boring slog to the Mirador de Trevelez where we rested [...]
2nd Highest mountain in mainland Spain, Veleta
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Jun 192008
Yep on Monday we went up Veleta, 5 hour round trip. Bruno and Khumbu made it aswell so they are knocking off the mountains well and truly. It was very cold on the way up as it was windy. We all had good fun especially on the way down as there was still plenty of [...]
Walkies with Khumbu
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May 202008
Today I went with Richard, a couple of clients from Spanish Highs and Khumbu into the snowy Sierra Nevada mountains. We left the 3 behind doing an Alpine Introduction Course and headed on our way up Veleta about a 1000m of accent from where we left them. Its always an adventure whenever Khumbu is involved especially in [...]
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