Tour of Andalucia March 2012 Day 6, a set on Flickr. Photos from Day 6 as we returned from Almunecar to Granada on our Tour of Andalucia week.
Category: Monachil
Tour of Andalucia March 2012 Day 5, a set on Flickr. Photos of our ride from Granada to Almunecar on our Tour of Andalucia Week
Guejar Sierra, a set on Flickr. Photos from Day 3 Tour of Andalucia Guejar Sierra. Crazy temperatures into the mid 20’s today.
Tour of Andalucia March 2012 Day 2, a set on Flickr. Photos from our ride up the Pico de Veleta today. During the day we a so saw Team Greenedge training for the 2nd day
Day 3 and 4 took us from Monachil to Almunacar and back over the Sierras de Tejeda. We set off from Monachil fairly early to tackle the rolling climb up over the Sierras de Tejeda. The first 15km or so are through the suburbs of Granada through what once must have been small villages –…
Today’s ride was a 91 km ride from our base in Monachil to La Peza over the Puerto de Los Blancaros. This forms day 1 of our Tour of Andalucia holiday in March. The temperature hit an amazing 21 degrees centigrade on the steady climb up to just under 1300 metres above sea level and…
Todays ride took in part of the coastal road (Ruta Turistica) to Almunecar before turning off right at about the half way point to the small village of Jayena just before the Sierra de Almijara. The 115km route (it would have been about 105km I took a wrong turning on the way back and ended at a…
Day off the bike today so took some photos of Monachil before heading to the Spanish coast to sort out a there and back route over 2 days with a stay in the seaside resort of Almunecar. Its approximately 100 km from Monachil steadly rising to 1500 metres on a moutain road before dropping down…
On another beautiful day here in Sierra Nevada southern spain i took the road to the sleepy village of La Peza over the 1297m Puerto de Los Blancares. This is an out and back route covering some 60 km with a 20 km climb through the valley to the summit of the Puerto de Los…
Rode the Pico de Veleta today from Monachil. The climb starts directly outside Monachil through some fairly steep swithbacks. After a while the road flattens out for a while before dropping down and climbing steadily up to 2500 metres. The road continues on further than this but at this time of year its a ski…