Andy Rodker's photos with the keyword: Cerro de La Cabeza

Cerro de La Cabeza, Sierra de La Cabrera. Granite country. GR10 Trans-Iberia long-distance path. How on earth did they get planning permission to build this isolated house here? Friends in high places, no doubt. This is Spain after all.

Convento Monasterio de San Julian y San Antonio and the Sierra de La Cabrera steep southern face as backdrop. Wildflowers in foreground.

I had just eaten my packed lunch when I thought it made sense to get off the mountain as I didn't like the look of the clouds and the light. So I scrambled down that slab on the left and made for lower ground. I still got caught in a (May) snow storm!

Sierra de La Cabrera, granite. Canchos Largo y Gordo.

100% granite and a few hardy trees.

WIldflowers in the Cerro de La Cabeza, Sierra de La Cabrera.

Sierra de La Cabrera. As I have mentioned before, this would almost be my ideal home! It just lacks the sea nearby! Taken from the GR10 - a long distance path linking the Mediterranean with the Atlantic. But today the path has been re-directed some way to the north. A dispute about property rights is usually the cause of such things.

Sierra de La Cabrera

Best on full screen and black. Sierra de La Cabrera.

Among the granite boulders and cliffs of La Sierra de La Cabrera.

Excellent scrambling county.

Sierra de La Cabrera. Rock rose. Spanish has cistus and also jara (jara, apparently means smelling of sh.t in arabic). But I don't get it. Yes, there can be a heady, cloying, almost sickly air on some days but usually the aroma, mixed in with the lavender, rosemary and thyme is to die for!

Where the GR10 long distance trail (Valencia to Lisbon) used to pass through the Sierra de La Cabrera. It now follows a different route for some reason. I wouldn't mind that property to the right, mid distance!

A good view of the western end of the ridge of the Sierra de La Cabrera from here. Two uploads from here shows the view of the eastern end from up near the summit. The western end is the more challenging for the scrambler but do-able. El Cancho Largo is the highest point and is the summit with the slightly mushroom shape (although in profile it looks like the head and helmet of a Roman soldier!).

In the first 18 months I was in Spain, I couldn't find a cloud for love nor money, hence the sameness of many of my Sierra photos from that time. Therefore I was delighted to spot these two tiny clouds in the distance! I didn't have an editing tool at the time, but it is possible I edited this later. The presence of a small photoframe indicates that I probably did so.

Thrift in the foreground. Granite country. La Sierra de La Cabrera

An outlier from the main La Cabrera ridge, this small hill nevertheless yields some interesting walks, scrambles and archaeological remains of a Celto-Ligurian settlement.

Convento Monasterio de San Julian y San Antonio from the faint path down from El Cancho Gordo. The small but very interesting and varied granite hill of Cerro de La Cabeza is ahead, it has some very ancient settlement sites on its sheltered slopes. This is the monastery seen from the other direction: www.ipernity.com/doc/2247598/45743486/in/album/935766 Best enlarged to the max to view the monastery more clearly. I have just seen that I have also posted this shot quite recently. Apologies!