Note – 2026-05-22 14:38
Congratulations to British mountaineer, Kenton Cool who has quietly and without fuss just made his 20th ascent of Everest. More Everest summits than any non-Sherpa ever. I remember us rock climbing w...
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Note – 2026-05-22 07:37
Morning Fediverse! The sun was just hitting the "acequia" channel this morning and provided some very interesting light
Note – 2026-05-19 16:23
Things don't always work out as planned. Nature always wins eh? Today I had packed my high mountain gear ready for a snow day but our dirt road into the high mountains was blocked by a landslide. Inst...
Note – 2026-05-15 06:45
View on the way to "work 🤣" yesterday! Pampaneira town with Capileira outlined on the higher shoulder above the Poqueira Gorge. The peak of Veleta (3394m) in the Sierra Nevada beyond.
Note – 2026-05-15 06:39
Taking a photography group through the "Pueblos Blancos" villages of Capileira, Bubion and Pampaneira yesterday. So, guess what? Here's some images of white village scenes 😂
Note – 2026-05-14 06:35
Sorry I'm a bit late for as I didn't get back yesterday until late. Here are the spectacular Tajo de Cortes of the Rio Bermejo, Alpujarras
Note – 2026-05-12 07:41
This week I'm having to leave my comfortable status of retirement and actually "work". Yes, it's true! I'm guiding a photography group led, by Andrew Scriven, around the Alpujarras, searching out phot...
Note – 2026-05-08 06:59
A piece of film history, then and now, 60+ years apart. Clint Eastwood and Eli Wallach in "The Good the Bad and the Ugly" at a place we know as Crocodile rock in the spectacular Tabernas badlands of A...
Note – 2026-05-07 07:47
2/ And what a place to sit and eat ones lunch! Upper Lanjaron Valley, Sierra Nevada,
Note – 2026-05-07 07:44
1/ Tough hike but what a day, still buzzing! Sometimes I don't think we fully appreciate just how much raw, untamed beauty and wildness we have so close to our homes. Saw nobody all day. Gotta go back...
Note – 2026-05-06 08:53
Just one of the many spectacular waterfalls we passed on yesterdays hike up into the upper Lanjarón valley, Sierra Nevada, Spain
Note – 2026-04-29 11:58
Thought I had our 3 week trip to the Central Pyrenees in June all sketched out. Then I came across "Le Chemin de Liberté" (Freedom trail) that escapees and evaders used in WW2 to escape south over the...
Note – 2026-04-26 08:39
Our local "acequia" has now been repaired and for the first time in 3 months we have flowing channels and irrigation water. The hillsides are now full of life again and wonderful places to go for a lo...
Note – 2026-04-17 16:25
Out hiking today with a Solos group from the UK who were enjoying the warm sun and stunning scenery of the Taha del Pitres. Hiked from Fondales to Ferrierola and onwards to Busquistar, and Portugos. A...
Note – 2026-04-15 08:01
Street scenes from the "Pueblos Blancos" of Capileira and Bubión in the Alpujarras a few days ago.
Note – 2026-04-15 07:54
The stunning waterfall of the Tajo de Cortés, Rio Bermejo above the town of Pitres in the Alpujarras
Note – 2026-04-05 07:29
Images from our Tabernas desert hike last Friday. I never fail to be inspired by this landscape and can see why it is used so much by the movie industry, set only some 25km inland from Almeria city.
Note – 2026-04-04 07:30
Yesterday we were hiking in the footsteps of Clint Eastwood in this amazing place
Note – 2026-04-02 06:16
This morning I rushed half naked out of bed. Must have been a funny sight! Why? For just a few minutes pre dawn we had this amazing lenticular cloud sat above town in the Alpujarra.