ISBN: 1783625589 9781783625581

Category: Travel / Europe / Spain & Portugal

Page count: 272

<p>A guidebook to 30 day walks and 2-day excursions, 5 high mountain scrambles and three longer multi-day routes in Spain’s Sierra Nevada. Routes are graded by difficulty: all call for good fitness and hillwalking experience, and the more demanding options involve navigational challenge, prolonged ascents, remote rugged mountain terrain and scrambling.</p> <p>The walks range from 5 to 38km (3–24 miles) and from 3 hours to 2–3 days. The scrambles are graded from Grade 2 to 3S. Also included are a 3–7 day traverse of the range’s 3000m peaks, a 3-day traverse of the 3 highest peaks ('Los Tres Picos') and an overview of the 302km (188 mile) Sulayr GR240.</p> <ul> <li>Clear route description illustrated with 1:50,000 mapping (1:100,000 and 1:250,000 for the longer treks)</li> <li>Photo topos showing the line of the scrambles</li> <li>GPX files available for download</li> <li>Information on water sources, plus additional notes for winter mountaineers</li> <li>Includes ascents of Mulhacén, mainland Spain’s highest summit</li> </ul>