Nature's good!

[elgie]

Anyone else interested in nature trips, hiking, trekking, climbing and so on? I use to go to the mountain every two or three weeks and, since I've been spamming the forum and the irc with some of my adventures lately, I htought, why not open a new thread about it?

So, I'll inaugurate this thread with my latest trip this sunday. I take my phone camera with me all the time but the pictures aren't very good.. though this time I got the aid of my boy's not-so-crappy digital camera.

We went to Andorra, a small country in the Pyrenees, and decided to climb a peak called "Puig negre d'En Valira". It's very easy, actually the route is very short and it doesn't need much ability. But we had a really bad weather: there was a thick fog and a wet and cold wind. We just had some minutes of sunshine and most of the time we culdn't see 5 metres beyond.


It's the triangular one.. beautiful


Awww horses   there were cows too, and some sheeps and.. prairie dogs they were very scandalous, squeaking here and there


We're in midsummer, but the temperatures weren't higher than 3 or 4º C... it was C O L D. Still, passing through the snow is a lot of fun.


The thick fog hides one of the two tops of the peak. The other one wasn't better tho.

The valley circus. There's a small cute lake down there.


That's me!  

In our way back to the mountain base, I felt my hands freezing. Really. Not only a feel of cold; they were really frozen and I even feared for their integrity. I mean, I couldn't barely move them and the only thing that assured me there was still hope was the fact that they hurt like hell. I cried because of the pain. I won't ever, ever go back to the mountain without a good pair of gloves, no matter whether it's going to be the hottest day in the year.

And well, besides the cold and the fog and the prairie dogs , there's nothing more to tell... Next week it'll be, either the Carlit (2.920 m!!! almost 3.000!!!   ) , either the circus of mountains surrounding the Puigmal ("only" 2.913 m   )