Arrival in the village of Tama, near Potes Our host for the week, Mike Stuart, picked us up in his van from Santander airport on the Monday morning. Instead of taking us directly to his farmhouse near Potes he took us on a tour of the coastline west of Santander. Mike went out of his […]
The great thing about living in the foothills of the mountains is that you can take last minute advantage of snow conditions. After heavy snowfall the previous day, today we had the best snowshoeing conditions of the winter. We headed up above Puente Palo onto the slopes of Cerrillo Redondo, where we made first tracks […]
First time at mid altitude for a while and my first venture this winter into the winter snows. We've had a poor winter so far so the recent heavy snowfalls have been most welcomed. Poor visibility meant we opted for the Barranco de San Juan valley as our snowshoeing route for the day. In zero […]
