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The Mountains of Central Spain (A Cicerone guide) (Paperback)

by Jacqueline Oglesby (Author)
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  • Paperback: 312 pages
  • Publisher: Cicerone Press (1 Jan 1996)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1852842032
  • ISBN-13: 978-1852842031
  • Product Dimensions: 17.2 x 11.6 x 2 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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The Sierras de Gredos and Guadarrama are the highest part of the long chain of hills and mountains which splits the big central tableland of Spain. Popular from Madrid, they are rarely visited by foreigners except those en route to the coast or the medieval cities which surround the range. The two sierras form an impressive physical barrier, reaching a height of nearly 2600m and being snow-capped for five months of the year, and they have much to offer the walker, scrambler or climber. The Sierra de Gredos are the highest and most inaccessible mountains in Central Spain with many long approaches up wild valleys or spurs to spectacular corries backed by jagged aretes. The Sierra de Guadarrama, nearer to Madrid and crossed by several high road passes, offer more intimate walking on a dense network of good footpaths and with a rich variety of scenery from rolling ridges to tightly packed granite towers. Lower than the better-known Spanish ranges, they offer an enjoyable mixture of open ridge walking and spectacular scrambling in a dry and sunny climate.


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I'm a professional potter and have spent most of my spare time walking, climbing and skiing in northern England, Scotland and the Alps. In the early 1990s I moved to Madrid, and was very excited to find myself living in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, a sprawling range of mountains rising to 2400m, with a magnificent variety of walking, no guidebooks, startlingly unreliable maps and only a handful of people venturing beyond the car parks or picnic spots. Later, there was the same privileged feeling of pioneering when I explored the bigger, more isolated and altogether rougher and tougher Sierra de Gredos, two hours to the west. Well, I just had to write it all down. In the years since then, the Spanish have discovered hill-walking in a big way, so if you go now you'll find a bit less solitude and a good deal more erosion, even in Gredos. I don't want to overstate this though, you'll still have the walks more or less to yourselves mid-week and in term time.
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2.0 out of 5 stars The Mountains of Central Spain (Cicerone Guide), 9 Jun 2009
I bought this guide "blind" having bought another one in the series a year ago, which was very good. Although the walk descriptions are tborough and detailed, this guide was a disappointment for several reasons. Firstly, it is out of date (not updated since 1996); secondly, the maps are not very useful, being crudely drawn, with several routes included on the same maps but no numbers to show which route is which. Also the way the walks were described made it inconvenient to use, as a lot of the routes given are variants of others, so that you have to keep switching between different route descriptions.

The Guadarrama is a beautiful area for walking, but I would not recommend this book for anyone planning to go there.
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