English classes via SKYPE?
Interested in practising and improving your English? From as little as €5 for half an hour of conversation? With the flexibility of Skype?
Contact me..by e-mail: aemono2000[at]yahoo.es ..or on Skype if you find me online: eamonmacmathuna
(In the e-mail address [at] = @!)
-
Recent Posts
Tags
ahimsa Alps Aneto An Samhain autumn autumnal colour Benasque Valley blackberries Bola del Mundo broom butterflies Cerro de Valdemartín Claveles climate change cold Autumn days cold Spring days cool summer daffodils dodgy media Dos Hermanas farsa nacional de guadarrama ferns Fuenfría valley fungi getting back to nature guiris in Guadarrama Hermana Menor Ireland kids gettin' out there kids in the mountains lack of snow la Maladeta La Peñota little gnome in the snow Loma del Noruego Lozoya valley Montón de Trigo Mountain skiing national farce of guadarrama nature Navalmedio valley peonia Peñalara Peñalara East face Peñalara ski Pico Cordier pine forests pines Pinus sylvestris piorno Pirineos poppy Pyrenees sheep-shearing Sierra Guadarrama Siete Picos Siete Picos ski snow Spring Spring Gentian steep ski strange Spring Summer sun beating down temperature changes the aesthetics of snow trash Valle de Benasque very weird weather weird weather wild camping Winter Winter wonderland yo-yo weather ÉireArchives
Categories
Links
Meta
Tag Archives: Sierra Guadarrama
Wintry day ski to Collado de Dos Hermanas
One Saturday in early March after fresh snowfall, we set out en famille from Cotos with the objective of reaching the col between my beloved Hermanas, the twin peaks that precede Peñalara and figure among the most accessible of the … Continue reading
February was the month of..the World’s Ball!
The Winter of 2016-17 is shaping up to be one of the poorer, and stranger, ones of recent times. Generally low snowfall and mild temps from December thru March have made it poor, and the directions of the prevailing winds … Continue reading
Yet another January scarce in snow..
I hate to be repetitious but that’s the way January is in the mountains of Guadarrama in recent times. Scarce in snow. Prodigious in days of high pressure, sun, temperature inversion and seas of cloud.. ..and low in snow. Some … Continue reading
Enhanced reality
The other day, i was up the mountains with my son checking out the new snow. There wasn’t a lot of it. In fact there wasn’t even enough to skin comfortably..let alone ski. So we sought out a sheltered area … Continue reading
Late November snow surprise!
After the superdry Summer we had this year, October and November have thankfully been more normal in precipitations. With the drop in temperatures towards the end of November we even got a certain amount of snow. Nothing like the Alps … Continue reading
Posted in children in Nature, Mountain, Nature, ski, snow, the seasons, Weather
Tagged autumn, kids gettin' out there, Sierra Guadarrama, Winter wonderland, yo-yo weather
Leave a comment
Dark time of the year?
After a week of Autumnal weather with abundant precipitation, the sun reigns once more in Spanish skies. Just when the long Summer of 2016 seemed to have definitively finished.. it’s back! 24ºC in Cercedilla today and i had to deploy … Continue reading
Posted in fauna, Mountain, Nature, origins, the seasons, Weather
Tagged autumn, butterflies, nature, Peñalara ski, Sierra Guadarrama, sun beating down, Winter, yo-yo weather
Leave a comment
Valsaín – traversing the great valley
What is the most beautiful valley of Guadarrama? I love my local Fuenfría Valley like no other. The Rascafría or Lozoya Valley is the vastest, longest, deepest of the Sierra’s valleys. Not long ago i wrote of the delights of … Continue reading
