Michele Kellerhals reports on a ski tour, slopes of Mulhacen, Sierra Nevada, cut short by our 4WD sliding into a ditch! http://ping.fm/tEMiH # RBS, 84 per cent owned by taxpayer, will pay £1.7 billion bonuses to bankers after reporting a £3.6 billion loss! http://bit.ly/awPRwi # Informative digital mountain news magazine http://ping.fm/5QIeI # News: ‘We are [...]
Between 4m & 5m snow depths in places in the Sierra Nevada. Means good mountaineering if it ever stops snowing & you have 1m wide snowshoes! # News: Snowboarder gets stuck overnight on chairlift and burns his money to attract attention http://bit.ly/9hNalH # The cupboard is bare and roads blocked by landslips. Chicken and leak [...]
Be careful driving in the forests above Capileira.Your 4WD can slip off the icy road into a ditch. Thank goodness for local tractor drivers! # We have some last minute vacancies for Toubkal and High Atlas, Morrocco in March, discounted 15%. http://bit.ly/b7HIAd # What a let down.After carefully preparing the pepper sauce, my entrecot steak [...]
Whatever the future holds for the farm at Semilla Besada, situated high above Lanjaron in the Alpujarras region of Andalucia, it will always be known to us as “David and Aspen’s place”.
News: Alpujarras weather station records January 2010 http://bit.ly/bLU42o # Trying to move #weather station software from one computer to another. Grrrr weather watch http://ping.fm/54ZMX # Reading "Forever on the Mountain" about 1967 McKinley disaster. Incredible story. Tough mountain. Harder than Everest? Maybe, for differing # Conditions getting a bit thin for backcountry skiing at the [...]
