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Collado de los Civiles
... reaches of the Higueron Valley below.
The descent from the Collado is easy at first, but becomes increasingly overgrown with gorse, cistus, rosemary, etc. as we approach the track below on the east side. The first time I attempted this route, I failed to find any trace of the path near the bottom and had to go back over the pass, but since then some kind person has made a couple of strategically placed cairns, which point the way through the thickest part ...
Rio Higueron
... the last time I was here. A few yards in front of the known difficulty (a smooth little water chute with a distinct lack of decent handholds - you have to throw the poles beyond it and get your fingers into some thin cracks on the right to stabilise your steps up the chute), someone has been building a small dam in the river. This has resulted in a little plunge pool - only a couple of metres across, but completely unavoidable. So I'm in it nearly up ...
El Cisne
... impossible obstacle. We get closer and closer to this barrier and find that after teetering across a very steep patch, the cairns have run out! Yes, there's a very steep and seemingly loose gully above us, but it doesn't look likely to lead to anywhere we want to go!
So I come up with the theory that we're meant to descend a bit from the Two Sisters Col and walk round, through the undergrowth, and below the cliff barrier, where there'll be an easy route back to the top. ...
Collado de Umbrales
... It's somewhere around here that a lone walker got lost or stranded or both in the summer, and was stuck out here for 19 days before she was found (alive). It may be only a few kilometres from Frigiliana as the crow flies, but it's an extremely remote place and you have to wonder why, without any previous experience of the area, she came here for her afternoon walk!Eventually, we get to a ruined farmhouse called La Presa and our afternoon break. I get out my ...
Collado de los Civiles
... s quite an easy walk up to the col. From here, as well as the view behind (which now includes Maroma), you can look across the valley to the east where the peaks of Cisne and Cadena take the eye. I haven't been up either of these yet - Cisne in particular is supposed to be a very long, hard day. There's also a helipad and reservoir in the bottom of the valley, maintained for fire-fighting purposes. It's quite windy here and I nearly lose a glove which is carried away after ...
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