I’ll be honest – my legs were a little stiff this morning!    We spent the morning in the village of Capileira, sending postcards, buying souvenirs and packing up. There was a lot of very dusty and very smelly kit to deal with before we could check in at Malaga Airport. We had a hour Read more

In order to hike up to the seven lakes, we had to retrace our steps a bit above the Refugio. This time though, we took a slight detour to search out a Geo-cache in an old wartime bunker that is now an emergency mountain shelter. It used to be a machine gun post, guarding the Read more

What a fantastic place to wake up this morning! Rab’s Nuterino 200 sleeping bag kept me snug and warm all night. I crawled out of the door and got back inside it while we brewed up in the morning sun. Bivi bliss.   Some friendly (hungry) Chamois came over to say hi, while we got Read more

Mulhachén is the highest mountain in mainland Spain and our main expedition objective. We set out from Ref. Poqueira and made a steady climb up the wide south ridge, via the slightly lower Mulhachén II.   Nearer the summit, storm clouds began to build and the skies darkened.   With only about 100m left to Read more

There’s an amazing village bakery in Capileira, so after a breakfast of Omlette and Coffee, we watched some fresh loaves being pulled from the wood fires oven. It smelled amazing in there! Perfect sandwich material.    After a slightly un-nerving drive upto 2000m or so and the start of the trail head, we finally set Read more

Between all the hecticness of the last few days, I managed to get the all the paperwork, bookings and risk assessments finalised for my next expedition. The last kit checks were done as well as sorting rations and these delicious de-hydrated meals for a planned high camp in the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in Read more