Sierra de La Cabrera
La Sierra de La Cabrera, eastern end.
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Taken from Cancho Gordo. The prominent peak, right centre, is Pico de La Miel. The white boulder to the left, is part of of Cancho de La Bola, home of vultures for thousands of years, hence its guano stained colour. Mind you, the rocks below it have shared in this bounty too!
Valdemanco and the Bustarviejo Valley
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Some new housing estates seen here - unfinished due to the construction industry crisis in the years after 2008.
Prickly Pear
Griffon vultures
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On Cancho de La Bola, looking across to Pico de La Miel which looks much closer that it actually is.
Sierra de La Cabrera granite country.
Granite scenery, La Sierra de La Cabrera
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On the skyline, L to R, Siera de La Pedriza, Cuerda Larga, Bolo del Mundo, Peñalara, Mondolindo, Peña Negra, Rio Frio. In the foreground, Peña de Tejo.
Mountain stream over granite
Granite
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!
Early purple orchid.
Typical Sierra de La Cabrera granite country.
Sierra de La Cabrera - typical of its granite scen…
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The main path through the Sierra only touches the crest of the ridge on a couple of occasions such as here. I prefer to keep to the actual ridge and scramble along the rocky crest, wherever possible!
Granite. Behind Cancho Largo
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I passed under this overhang to proceed on my way.
(It's not so difficult: I didn't include the easy foot ledge in this photo!)
Griffon vultures and their guano stained home. Can…
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Sierra de La Cabrera.
I found it difficult at first to capture these Griffon vultures, but eventually I found a way. And it meant stealthily climbing upwind and in shade.
www.ipernity.com/doc/2247598/album/1022196
Mountain goats / ibex.
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I heard them before I saw them; they sometimes breathe in great snorts! They all watched me quizically and didn't move a muscle as I approached and passed them. They all just kept their eyes firmly fixed on me as I passed. It was only later as I looked back that I saw a kid suckling. I couldn't take a shot of it as the sun was directly in line. La Sierra de La Cabrera.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RG9TMn1FJzc
El Pico de La Miel.
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Sierra de La Cabrera granite with El Pico de La Miel and the Embalse de Atazar.
Wild tulips in their element!
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They seem to like this degraded granite slope. It is saturated with rain and snow melt in winter but is free-draining after that.
Rock window. H. A. N. W. E. everyone!
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