Sierra de las nieves, los sauces, Ronda peak
LOCATION: Sierra de las Nieves. Los Sauces- El Palancar country
house- Peñón de Ronda- Los Sauces.
TIME: Three hours.
DESCRIPTION: The route provides a pleasant walking tour through
Los Sauces camp area where there is a grove of firs.
After leaving Los Sauces through the Cañada de la Encina
walking on along a soft slope towards a brook, we shall be
climbing through a gorge along a very winding track.
Initially, this track makes it way southwards and then turns
abruptly round the cliff, crossing what used to be an extensive
grove of firs wich was destroyed by a fire.
Then the track goes up until reaching a very picturesque farm
house by a hill with a splendid orchad of cherry trees.
Once at the hill, we shall prepare the climb to the Peñón
de Ronda, 1297 m. high, situated on our right. From the top,
there is a splendid perspective of the Torrecilla (see route
MA-10).
Walking down along the same track, we shall arrive at the
Peñón country house, still inhabited, in a bucolic
place at the foot of the rock.
From here we shall walk on westwards in the opposite direction
we had initially taken, on the other side of the rock, in
order to take a track with makes its way along the hillside
of the rock and soon reaches the Palancar country house, from
alon a lane until reaching a cross roads wich we shall take
to the right.
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