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Richard

Threading the Raspones Ridge

Threading the Raspones Ridge

This was an interesting day. Interesting as it crossed some terrain I have never trodden before, threading the Raspones ridge. We started at Posiciones at 3000m, using the National park bus to gain altitude. Round the old road to the Refugio Carihuela, then over the vertical Paso de los Guias

Summer Walking With Water

Summer Walking With Water

This morning we went into the unknown amazonian forest, forded raging rivers, entered dramatic gorges, got eaten by bugs and swung over vertical cliffs. Were we deterred? No! We emerged the other side, intact and in time for a few lunchtime beers

Lazy ways to paint the house

Lazy ways to paint the house

After many years of neglect our outer walls and cortijo walls have been repaired, re plastered and repainted. After the spring "Sahara Dust" (Calima) storms that plagued this part of southern Spain our white walls were left ingrained with a drab mix of white and dirty sandy colour.

Blurred images and lost opportunities

Blurred images and lost opportunities

In trying to learn camera techniques to take good landscape images you are bound to have some failures. It's a shame as those failures can sometimes happen in superb mountain settings, resulting in lost opportunities.

Hard Going on the Tozal del Cartujo ridge

Hard Going on the Tozal del Cartujo ridge

A tough return for me to high mountain scrambling on this mountaineering ascent of the north ridge of Tozal del Cartujo in Spain's Sierra Nevada

Wet and Windy in the San Juan Valley

Wet and Windy in the San Juan Valley

A very unseasonal hiking day in Spain's Sierra Nevada which brought welcome relief from the heat of the lower villages

Fields of Gold on Las Alegas

Fields of Gold on Las Alegas

Describes a walk up the quiet and relatively remote peak of Las Alegas above the Alpujarras in Spain's Sierra Nevada mountains