Stopping for refreshment in Torzvicón
27 December 2011 Nieles- Lobras
We needed a short walk this week so that Kees could get to the Dentist, we can’t have him smiling at his new grandson with his teeth missing. This section of the walk just fitted the bill, with an estimated total distance of around 16 km and not a lot of climbing, he would be sat in the Dentist’s chair in plenty of time.
We were going to do the walk in the reverse direction, starting from near Lobras, this way we would get most of the climbing done in the morning.
The walk starts by following a stream in a deep sided barranco, and even though we did not start walking until 9 am, the sun could not reach down into the bottom of it. There was frost on the ground and we were glad of the hats and gloves. The path crosses the stream too many times to count and it was a good job there was not much water in it, else we would have been looking at seriously wet feet. After a couple of K’s we came across the GR7 crossing our path. Both routes were heading for Lobras ,the GR7 taking the direct approach whilst our path meandered up a hillside that was suffering from serious erosion, necessitating in us having to take a short detour.
The path passes through Lobras and then follows a track through Olive growing country, making its way towards Nieles. At one point we missed a turning but were quickly put back on track by two 8 year old Brits, busy playing in the fields. Nieles is a small village on a hillside, unfortunately not the same hill that we were on. The only way to reach it was to follow the path down into the barranco and climb out again. We had planned the walk as a there and back one but in the village there was a map showing that we could take an alternative way back via Tímar, a small village above Lobras. I was a bit hesitant about the route because it wasn’t on our maps or in the GPS. A local woman assured us that if we followed the road for 15 minutes we would come to it, hum! in a straight line it was 4 km. We walked about 10 minutes and then decided to turn around.
When we got home I rechecked all the maps, none of them showed the road we were on, which if we had continued to follow would have taken us to Tímar in just over an hour.
After stopping for lunch in Nieles we retraced our steps as far as Lobras and then followed the road back down to the car.
We stopped off in Torvizcón for refreshment and the group photo, something went wrong here, my image failed to appear. We were home in plenty of time for Kees to get his new teeth.
On the walk Mike, Kees, Ray and myself.
Distance on GR142 8.4 km, ascent 751 metres, total distance 16.7 km.
Total on GR142 50km , Total walked 86.5 km. Total ascent 4685 metres.
We needed a short walk this week so that Kees could get to the Dentist, we can’t have him smiling at his new grandson with his teeth missing. This section of the walk just fitted the bill, with an estimated total distance of around 16 km and not a lot of climbing, he would be sat in the Dentist’s chair in plenty of time.
We were going to do the walk in the reverse direction, starting from near Lobras, this way we would get most of the climbing done in the morning.
The walk starts by following a stream in a deep sided barranco, and even though we did not start walking until 9 am, the sun could not reach down into the bottom of it. There was frost on the ground and we were glad of the hats and gloves. The path crosses the stream too many times to count and it was a good job there was not much water in it, else we would have been looking at seriously wet feet. After a couple of K’s we came across the GR7 crossing our path. Both routes were heading for Lobras ,the GR7 taking the direct approach whilst our path meandered up a hillside that was suffering from serious erosion, necessitating in us having to take a short detour.
The path passes through Lobras and then follows a track through Olive growing country, making its way towards Nieles. At one point we missed a turning but were quickly put back on track by two 8 year old Brits, busy playing in the fields. Nieles is a small village on a hillside, unfortunately not the same hill that we were on. The only way to reach it was to follow the path down into the barranco and climb out again. We had planned the walk as a there and back one but in the village there was a map showing that we could take an alternative way back via Tímar, a small village above Lobras. I was a bit hesitant about the route because it wasn’t on our maps or in the GPS. A local woman assured us that if we followed the road for 15 minutes we would come to it, hum! in a straight line it was 4 km. We walked about 10 minutes and then decided to turn around.
When we got home I rechecked all the maps, none of them showed the road we were on, which if we had continued to follow would have taken us to Tímar in just over an hour.
After stopping for lunch in Nieles we retraced our steps as far as Lobras and then followed the road back down to the car.
We stopped off in Torvizcón for refreshment and the group photo, something went wrong here, my image failed to appear. We were home in plenty of time for Kees to get his new teeth.
On the walk Mike, Kees, Ray and myself.
Distance on GR142 8.4 km, ascent 751 metres, total distance 16.7 km.
Total on GR142 50km , Total walked 86.5 km. Total ascent 4685 metres.
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