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Cerro Verde

Thursday - 20th October 2022

 

Distance Time Elevation in meters

Km		 Elapsed
Hrs-Mins		 Moving
Hrs-Mins		 Gain Loss Min Max
10.87 5H08   697 688 708 1,321

   

   

 

 

 

 

Parking at Fabrica de la Luz, some 3 km from Canillas de Albaida

Ready for off

We crossed the stream several times as we climbed up

 

 

 

 

 

Walnut trees on the left, chaps!

I noticed that the over-50 males in the group had a shudder go down their backs as we passed the walnut trees. It reminded me of the time I went into see my (female) GP on a relatively minor matter, and ended up having the “Thwack-test”. Somehow my GP cajoled me to go behind the curtain and lay on the couch in the foetal position with my pants down. I heard the thwack through the flimsy curtain as she put a surgical glove on her right hand, and the oozing sound of the KY Jelly as it came out of the aluminium tube. In a flash she slipped through the gap in the curtain and before I could say anything ……. wham! “Your walnut is nice and round, with no enlargement” she said ”and I can feel the crease that divides the two halves……….”

We no longer have walnuts at Christmas. I am still suffering from “Post-Traumatic-Walnut-Syndrome”!

There is a serious note to this, chaps…….IF IN DOUBT, CHECK IT OUT!

 

Honey Makers Cave

 

An ibex near Honey Makers Cave

Onwards and upwards

 

It got steeper here, and the farmer had concreted over the path making it harder under foot.

 

A really old cork tree

 

 

Looking back down the valley

 

It started to get a bit interesting!

 

 

 

 

Our lunch spot

Start of the climb to Cerro Verde

 

Mick looking a bit serious..... are they all going to make it?

 

 

 

 

 

 

R to L: Sheryle, Bernie, Lyn, Paul and Michael

 

The trig point

 

 

On the way down.... the pine needles made it really slippy

 

Cerro Atalaya

 

 

 

We walked along this fire break before cutting off to the right

 

 

 

 

 

Growing in the wild.... these would cost a fortune in a garden center in UK

Dried up irrigation system

Almost at the car park at Fabrica de la Luz