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Richard

Pico Lopera, a quality ascent of modest altitude

Pico Lopera, a quality ascent of modest altitude

After nearly two months having a pacemaker implant and then recovering from it, I was finally able to get out with the walking group again. We chose Pico Lopera, a modest peak in the north of the Sierra de Almijara.

Bionic Man - They can rebuild him

Bionic Man - They can rebuild him

Got out of hospital last night at long last. Was in there 4 nights in total. Every thing is good and I have a €20,000 device, half the size of a mobile phone stuck under my left collar bone. Good job I was insured.

Prado Llano and Refugio Poqueira

Prado Llano and Refugio Poqueira

Our route to the Refugio Poqueira started at the Hoya del Portillo and ascended through the pine forests to the viewpoint of Puerto Molina. Snow capped peaks surrounded us.

My First Christmas Jumper!

My First Christmas Jumper!

The story behind receiving my very first dodgy Christmas Jumper at the ripe old age of 66!

Ruta de los Mineros, Sierra de Lujar

Ruta de los Mineros, Sierra de Lujar

For many years I have gazed south to the rather uninspiring lump of the Sierra de Lujar. This small mountain range nearly 2000m high has never inspired me to walk it's seemingly boring wooded hillsides. A day with the Nomads Walking Group there has changed my opinion.

First tentative steps up a mountain

First tentative steps up a mountain

I climbed my first hill in 1963, the year that President Kennedy was shot and when I was just eight years old. My Dad was an accountant and had a job doing the books of a pub in Appleby in Cumbria. On a day off he drove me to the village of Dufton and we set off up Dufton Pike

Memories of Patagonia - #1 Blizzards

Memories of Patagonia - #1 Blizzards

Blizzards, snowdrifts, gales, frostbite, snow blindness, buried tents, floods, hardship, cold, sleepless nights. It must be summer then in deepest Patagonia.