Walk Summary
Only a small 50km detour on drive along from Zaragoza to Calpe. Leave the A23 north of Teruel at junction 116 following the A226 to Cedillas, ignoring SatNav turn right on the very minor road TE-V-8024 to Alcalá de la Selva, finally taking the road to Estación Invernal de Valdelinares and continuing to Collado de la Gitano where you can leave the tarmac road and follow a stone track almost all the way to the summit.
In fact coming to the end of the track there is an old worn stone pillar that you may think is the summit marker but approx 50m to the SSE is a trig pillar on a top of a stone tower that is first accessed by stone steps and finally metal steps built in to the stone giving access to the trig pillar.
I withstood a bollocking from the wife for climbing them in my flip flops and as I reached the top could hear more voices so decided to come straight down in case it was Ranger Rick.
Turns out it was a group of 19 hikers who had walked 16km to reach the same point we had driven to. Presumably they had 16km to walk back. Have to say I felt somewhat guilty for about half a second but was tempered by completing the three isolated P600's around Teruel that I had passed several times on our drive to Valencia and the Costas.
Gina's 4th Spanish P600 and her highest peak reached on foot albeit only involved a 50m hike.
Returned to the A23 at junction 75 via Mora de Rubielos
Walk Statistics
Peaks visited
Spain/Portugal 600m Prominence Peaks (168S - 185S&P - 2165E)
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| First thought was had driven right up to the summit |
In fact coming to the end of the track there is an old worn stone pillar that you may think is the summit marker but approx 50m to the SSE is a trig pillar on a top of a stone tower that is first accessed by stone steps and finally metal steps built in to the stone giving access to the trig pillar.
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| Half way up trig tower in flip-flops |
Turns out it was a group of 19 hikers who had walked 16km to reach the same point we had driven to. Presumably they had 16km to walk back. Have to say I felt somewhat guilty for about half a second but was tempered by completing the three isolated P600's around Teruel that I had passed several times on our drive to Valencia and the Costas.
Gina's 4th Spanish P600 and her highest peak reached on foot albeit only involved a 50m hike.
Returned to the A23 at junction 75 via Mora de Rubielos
Walk Statistics
Walk Date - 15 May 2019
Walkers - Steve Smith, Gina Smith
Walkers - Steve Smith, Gina Smith
Accommodation - Camping Calp-Mar, Calpe
Start Point - End of stone track near stone pillar (40.39056°N, 0.66528°W)
Start Time - 13:43
Finish Point - End of stone track near stone pillar (40.39056°N, 0.66528°W)
Finish Time- 14:04
Total Duration - 0hrs 21mins
Overall Average pace - 0.29mph
Total Distance Walked - 0.10 miles
Total Height Ascended -1.00metres
Overall Average pace - 0.29mph
Total Distance Walked - 0.10 miles
Total Height Ascended -1.00metres
Spain/Portugal 600m Prominence Peaks (168S - 185S&P - 2165E)
Peñarroya (57S - 58S&P - 87E)
Spain/Portugal 300m - 599m Prominence Peaks (1000+)
NONE
Spain/Portugal 150m - 299m Prominence Peaks (3000+)
NONE
Spain Autonomous Community High Points (19)
NONE
Spain Province High Points (52)
Peñarroya (10)
S: Spain
P: Portugal
E:Europe
P: Portugal
E:Europe
2019
May
15th Peñarroya
Route
Map of route to follow
More Photographs
Full set of captioned photos providing journal and description of key parts of ascent, descent and summit photographs.
Route map, Statistics and other route info to follow.
Route map, Statistics and other route info to follow.
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| Group of 19 hikers walked 16km to reach the summit. Did not make me feel guilty Click on photograph to view slide-show |