Category Archives: Climate change

Spring (kindov..or is it Summer?)

Posted on April 15, 2024 by coldspringdays

The snow is gone. All gone. Utterly gone. Spring is indubitably upon us, yes, and even tho temperatures dropped sharply for a few days right at the end of March coinciding with Easter – and there was even generous snowfall … Continue reading →

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Winter, again..kindov..

Posted on March 18, 2024 by coldspringdays

After a dry, warm and greenbrown second half of January and beginning of February, we had a fleeting cold episode with minimal snowfall around February 10th and then more sun and Springlike weather..until, in the dying days of the second … Continue reading →

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once again..a one-week Winter wonder

Posted on January 19, 2024 by coldspringdays

Nothing very wonderful about it really, i’m afraid, just the consolidation of a phenomenon that has been edging its way towards normality over the last six years in the Sierra de Guadarrama..a Winter that lasts a week, ten days if … Continue reading →

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Un giorno nel Palon de la Mare

Posted on April 15, 2023 by coldspringdays

One of those days when not quite everything goes right – in fact when almost everything went wrong..i had to swap between pairs of skins several times – and still you keep on and make it to the top..and then … Continue reading →

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And ice!

Posted on February 8, 2023 by coldspringdays

Over two weeks of freezing temperatures from mid-January on – something that we don’t see too often in recent years – and the Sierra de Guadarrama dresses up in its old Winter finery…icefalls like the Cascada de Zabala that only … Continue reading →

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Fire!

Posted on December 17, 2022 by coldspringdays

The wonder of fire..that phenomenon so fundamental to human well-being, to science, to progress.. and yes, i forget not the terror of fire..the terrible, awful results of our abuse of fire, our deadly addiction to burning..burning, burning, burning ..but, at … Continue reading →

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Scars of the Summer of ’22

Posted on September 22, 2022 by coldspringdays

This Summer has left its mark, indelible, unforgettable, on the landscape and on the inhabitants of the planet’s Northern hemisphere. Catastrophic flooding in Pakistan, Kentucky, Italy’s Marche region..simultaneous to extreme drought, dry rivers – the Po, the Rhine, the Danube … Continue reading →

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Chronicles of self-destruction

Posted on July 21, 2022 by coldspringdays

Day by day..the news gets grimmer and grimmer .. multi-day heatwaves in multiple regions of the globe, in Europe, in India-Pakistan, in the USA, in eastern China ..record temperatures near and far, last week on Wednesday we had a new … Continue reading →

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The return of Winter..in Spring?

Posted on March 31, 2022 by coldspringdays

..another one of those disturbingly weird years..with Winter absent, all Winter..and now come Spring, comes Winter.. we had something like Winter at November’s end and in the first weeks of December, but by the calendar date of Winter’s entry, the … Continue reading →

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Another year, another time, Peñalara’s East face

Posted on January 3, 2022 by coldspringdays

One more time..on the East face of Peñalara, about the only place in Sierra de Guadarrama where continuity on snow for 300 vertical meters can be found this early January, where the snow has resisted the high temps and pissing … Continue reading →

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