Trekking Diaries

Day 19th – Rising up to the sky… 3482m….

The second day of the hike went quite smoothly, we woke up around 6:30 am, and believe or not it took us 1:30h to gather our stuff and head out to our objective that day, the Mulhacén at 3482m. It was a fine weather, the sun was shining and there very little clouds in the sky, and the temperature (although we were already quite high) was very pleasant maybe around 20º. Around 8:00 am we start the climbing from 2891m high. After some shorts breaks, some of them to see the rocks...(once a geology freak, always a geology freak – sem ofença Toni, tb me incluo). The climbing was a little hard, and seem like non ending, this because we could see Mulhacén very clearly all the way…but somehow the longer we walked it didn’t seem to get any closer…Anyway we made it there around 10:50 in the morning, and I really enjoyed the moment. After many Spaniards come and go we were still there admiring the landscape (in fact I think that both of us felt like it was so hard to get there and so we wanted to extended the moment as must as possible) The feeling was fantastic, indescribable…
Once more I made it!
Don’t know for sure up until we stayed there I maybe around 45min. Then we decided to have lunch in siete Lagunas so off we went for climbing down…it took around 1,5h to reach again siete Lagunas where, once more, we ate the delicious instant pasta. After a hour break for lunch we set off for Trevelez…It took us around 3:15h climbing down. Everything went well maybe in the first hour of climbing down, at that point somehow Toni’s knees started to hurt and soon after it was necessary to do frequently small stops for his knees to rest! I have to confess I you got me scared there, I had some pain in my feet due to my lousy boots, but your knees were in far worse condition. When we reached Trevelez…both of us were exhausted, we just laid in the closest coffee shop for one hour or so just relaxing and enjoying the moment ( I may say that the icecream Maxibom was one of the highlights of that day), and remembering our adventure…back to camping I had a long shower and a delicious dinner in a place with view for the village. That night, it took me maybe 1 minute to fall a sleep…
In the beginning we had planned to go to Veleta the next day, but soon we realized that we would be going, not this time…
Thinking back, I would only do different the second day…maybe a 3 days trip is more appropriate, to climb down almost 2000m in one day, it can proved to be very hard for our knees…

The next day we would have hoped for Alhambra but unfortunately couldn’t make it, the tickets were all sold out! So instead we just walk around Granada, got pass some street tea markets, the cathedral (amasing)… It was very hot that day, around 40º…so they say is one of the hottest cities in Europe…