La Sierra de La Cabrera
Granite
H. A. N. W. E. everybody
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Bustarviejo Valley and Mondalindo from La Sierra de La Cabrera.
A late winter scene.
Top climber at the overhanging crux, Cancho Largo.…
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Adjacent photo is from just behind this rock and shows that I tried to get to the top but from the back route. I achieved it once (before I had a camera or cameraphone), but haven't found the scrambling route since.
Very close to the summit of Cancho Largo
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This is connected with the next photo, with the climber tackling this massive rock from the other side. I got to the top once, in November 2010 but I haven't been able to find the scrambling route I took and I had no camera or camera phone back then. Here, this was as far as I was happy to go, short of climbing the tree and jumping aross from the top!
Torre de Valdemanco
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Sierra de La Cabrera on a bitterly cold winter's day (even if it was late March!).
Some fun scrambling to be had round here!
Wild lavender
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Spanish or Iberian lavender and possibly a yellow trefoil of some kind.
La Sierra de La Cabrera.
Autumn crocus
Peña del Tejo in spring.
Civil War look-out post ruins on Cancho Gordo.
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Sierra de La Cabrera, Looking east to Pico de La Miel from the half way point along the ridge. I tried to find out who built this, but when I asked in the village, they all said it was built against Napoleon.
I have learnt to back off when I hear this. The Civil War is still too raw, or still too taboo, to get a frank discussion in these villages. Concrete wasn't around in Napoleon's day!
Sierra de La Cabrera, typical granite scenery. Can…
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I can't think of a more typical Sierra de la Cabrera piece of scenery than this! The deep blue sky is also typical ... at any season (and this was a perishingly cold January day!).
Early purple orchid.
Mountain stream. H. A. N. W. E. Everyone!
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This should have been in full spate, it being spring but drought at the wrong time of year and this dried to a trickle the following week.
Sierra de La Cabrera granite and cistus. Valdemanco, Madrid Province
Wild tulips
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Sierra de La Cabrera.
A hot spring day, the sun high in the sky and despite the fact that snow is still to be seen, the conditions are right for these wild tulips to 'strut their stuff'!
Wild lavender and mountain stream
Typical granite scenery
Wild lavender
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Spanish or Iberian lavender, Sierra de La Cabrera.
On the old GR10, the long distance footpath from Valencia to Lisbon (the new path goes north just before here and takes a radically new route north of the Sierra - no idea why they changed it - ), crossing the entire peninsula. Actually hardly anyone attempts this, such is the alternative lure of the many pilgrimage routes to Santiago de Campostela.
Beehives, Valdemanco
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Sierra de La Cabrera and Mondalindo as a backdrop.
The villagers move the hives every few years to deter honey thieves (and I mean the human kind, not bears!). I keep coming across them in ever-more inaccessible places!
Cancho Largo
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The highest peak in the Sierra de La Cabrera.
No climbers tackling this daunting face and even more daunting and enormous overhang today!
No vultures soaring above either, even though I did wait ages. Never mind, eh!
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