Tag Archives: Sierra Guadarrama

Where’ve i bin? Skiin’!

Posted on April 5, 2018 by

Not bin bloggin’ much recently..nor anything much else, apart from working, sleeping and skiing. Skiing the soft, skiing the hard, skiing the wet, skiing the cream, skiing the deep, skiing the crust, skiing the sweet, skiing the light. And while … Continue reading →

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Tino skis Hermana Menor – video

Posted on March 2, 2018 by

Multiple days out this Winter in difficult weather had left Tino thinking this mountain skiing business seems kinda tough. Finally we had a day of blue skies and moderate winds, wonderful..although the snow, as is often the case when the … Continue reading →

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Trees, rocks, streams.. in the snow.

Posted on February 18, 2018 by

This is a tree that i visit regularly in Winter..on days of bad visibility it’s often as high as you can go, or at least the last reliable landmark on the way to the top of Hermana Menor. How many … Continue reading →

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The Wise Kings have been generous!

Posted on January 9, 2018 by

After the utter misery of December 2017, the first days of January 2018 brought us.. more of the same, rain and, possibly even worse, the soul-destroying ‘pissing mist’..known as niebla meona in the Sierra de Guadarrama. And then on the … Continue reading →

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Sad Old Year..Sierra de Guadarrama sets new depths for no-snow misery

Posted on December 29, 2017 by

This year-end some in the US are pining for a ‘liddul bit of thaat good ol’ globul worming’..the fact that morons will be morons aside, here in the center of Spain we seem to be getting a pretty good ration … Continue reading →

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So who was Puricelli?

Posted on December 14, 2017 by

Our local Puricelli trail (Camino Puricelli) is named for Piero Puricelli (1883-1951) who was an Italian engineer famed for building the world’s first motorway. Puricelli, a man of his times, was imbued with the futurist thirst for speed. He had … Continue reading →

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Snow biking on the Puricelli trail

Posted on December 5, 2017 by

As i was saying in my last post, we got out on our bikes despite the serious cold temps of recent days..a foray up the Fuenfría Valley as far as the flat Puricelli trail would take us. Cool sensations in … Continue reading →

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