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| Sieto | Mulhacén (3478m) via the westflank  Date Climbed: Mar 15, 2009 | |
| Climbed a very snowy Mulhacen via the westflank (Rio Mulhacen), descended via the south. The night before the climb was spent at the Poquiera hut, which is very nice. The weeks before I was there up to 4 meters of snow fell, luckily some of that (read: a lot of that) was gone, or it would've been some a tough climb. | |
| Posted May 6, 2009 3:02 pm | ||
| laziom | From Pradollano youth hostel Date Climbed: Oct 23, 1999 | |
| a very long hike via Veleta | ||
| Posted Dec 5, 2008 1:01 pm | ||
| Mg-k | Route climbed: from Trévelez Date Climbed: Sep 17, 2008 | |
| Mulhacén from Trevélez, 2000 meters up and down in about 9 hours. Start at 4 in the night to be back in the heat of the afternoon. In the moonshine, it was no problem to find the route up to Mirador de Trevélez. Before sunrise, clouds covered the moon and first thunders appeard at the coastline. Before they came closer, we summited at 9 in the morning. While descending to the Siete Lagunas, the thunderstorm reached the peaks, but then disappeared soon. When we arrived Trevélez at about half past one in the afternoon, the sky was clear and we spent the hot sunny afternoon at the pool. | |
| Posted Sep 23, 2008 11:28 am | ||
| oconnellr | Route Climbed: Trevelez, Mirador del Trevelez, south slope Date Climbed: Jul 3, 2008 | |
| Great day in the mountains and amazing views! Just over 2000m of vertical walking! | |
| Posted Jul 5, 2008 11:26 am | ||
| Olaf | Nice Walk Date Climbed: May 15, 2008 | |
| Nice walk to the summit of Mulhacen with beautiful views on the Sierra Nevada and the Andalucian coast line. From the information center to summit took 3.5 hrs, returned in 3 hrs. | |
| Posted May 18, 2008 5:42 am | ||
| Unai Cruces | Route Climbed: From Capileira / Refugio Poqueira via Rio de Mulhacen Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2007 | |
| Yeah, This is my second time in the summit of Mulhacen, last year it was that who carried me. This time I climbed with Mum, Samuel and my brother Jon (6 years old). It was a nice day !! I am only 4 years old !! PHOTOS: http://todovertical.com/jon_unai/blog.php?id=8 | |
| Posted Mar 26, 2008 5:51 am | ||
| tws | Route Climbed: From Capileira / Refugio Poqueira via Rio de Mulhacen Date Climbed: Jan 5, 2008 | |
| I started from Capileira at 1500m the first day, with great weather conditions and clear skies everywhere. Via Cebadilla and Poqueira electrical plant I got to the Refugio Poqueira. First snow started to appear approximately at 1700m and there was plenty of snow at the bottom of the Poqueira valley. At 2300m I put on the crampons. The refuge was really nice. Despite being cold (it was 4C at night in the dormitory) everything was great, and they do really good food. The next day I started with one guy from Madrid at 10AM via the Mulhacen river and we reached the summit 3.5h later being the first on that day. Until near the summit the weather was quite good - some clouds, but great views to the Mediterranean Sea and Africa. On the Mulhacen south face at about 3200m it all suddenly changed and there was zero visibility at the summit. (The next day the summit was again completely clear of clouds). The terrain conditions were very mixed - from the refuge until about 3100m we used the snowshoes because in addition to hard snow there were some sections with deep soft snow. After that, it was crampons and ice axe. We went back to the refuge over the Loma del Mulhacen. The sun returned again at 3300m. We took off the crampons at about 3200m because there were too many areas of just pure rocks again. | |
| Posted Jan 12, 2008 12:44 pm | ||
| Rafa Bartolome | From Poqueira hut Date Climbed: Jun 16, 2007 | |
| We climbed from refugio de Poqueira following the ravine of river mulhacen to Col de Mosca. We climbed the nice Puntal de la Caldera (3220m), beautifull ridge of grade I+, and we returned to Mulhacen to walk the west slopes to the summit. We descended across the SE slope to Siete lagunas to turn to get the entry to the route of Alcazaba from south. We leaved the route in a col turning to west to Peñón del Globo (3288m) and the ridge to Puntal de la Cornisa (3313m), reaching Alcazaba across the easy west ridge (grade I). We returned to siete lagunas to reach the south col of Mulhacen after a good path, descending to refugio de Poqueira in a total traverse of 10 hours and half. | |
| Posted Jun 17, 2007 6:53 pm | ||
| pablo | Route Climbed: Normal - West Slope Date Climbed: Dec 28, 2006 | |
| After a long and heavy approach (loaded backpacks and soft snow) from Sierra Nevada Ski station to "La Caldera" Hut/Bivouac where we -Gabi, Pablo and Jonas- spent a cold night, we waked up at 7am to get prepared and have something hot. The ascend began at 8am, it was cold (-7C) but beautiful. At 9h25am we reached the summit and celebrated with hugs & photos the growing sunshine and loneliness. We then initiated the rather strenous way back to Sierra Nevada, but it was all in all a great way to finish the year ! | |
| Posted Jan 3, 2007 2:41 pm | ||
| edog2005 | Route: from Hoya del Portillo Date Climbed: Nov 5, 2006 | |
| I got to the summit of Mulhacén on 5th November 2006, approaching from the south. Although it was a long walk up, there were no technical difficulties and no steep sections. Although there was some snow at the summit this was not a problem and an ice axe and crampons were not required. I parked my car at the trailhead at Hoya del Portillo at 2150m above sea level. The road here from the village of Capileira has many switchbacks, small potholes and is not paved, but I had no problems driving up it in my simple rented Fiat Punto. Most of the walking route from the southern trailhead at Hoya del Portillo is a good dirt track that a 4x4 vehicle would be able to get up no bother. When I did this walk, the tourist bus from Capileira (which is not an off-road vehicle by any stretch of the imagination!) was still running, and travels as far as Alto del Chorrillo at about 2700m above sea level (although I didn't use this). From here, the most direct route up to the summit leaves the dirt track and goes up the Loma del Tanto ridge, but there is still an easily-navigated and straightforward path up through boulder fields. There is a shrine on the summit that includes a memorial plaque to 3 english hikers who died on the mountain in March 2005 due to the weather, so although I had calm and relatively benign weather for this trip, it should not be underestimated in the winter months. The hike took me 5 hours from the Hoya del Portillo trailhead to the summit and 3 hours 30 minutes to descend back, a round-trip of about 30km in total. There were thick clouds at lower levels of the route which prevented a view, but the route above about 3300m was above the clouds and allowed some awe-inspiring views, especially to the neigbouring summit of Veleta, and down the precipitous north face of Mulhacén. I drove up from sea level that morning without acclimatisation but got to the summit with no altitude problems. I have a photo report of this hike at: http://www.edwardboyle.com/photos58.html | |
| Posted Nov 15, 2006 12:13 pm | ||
| KNEEP | trevelez via siete lagunas Date Climbed: May 24, 2006 | |
| Very nice route. | |
| Posted Nov 1, 2006 3:06 pm | ||
| Jon Cruces | ROUTE: From Poqueira Hut via Mulhacen River Date Climbed: Oct 13, 2006 | |
| I reached the summit in only 3 hours from Poqueira Hut !! I was very happy to reach this high mountain being only 5 years old it is my first 3.000 meter peak and spain second highest I climbed it together with my mother Patricia, my brother Unai (3 years old) that was carried by dad Happy Climbs !! | |
| Posted Oct 15, 2006 4:22 pm | ||
| Jurgen Mesman | Date climbed: may 2004 | |
| Two weeks after the accident with a dutch group. Climbed with some buddies from school and a biologyteacher(Willem, Syro, Pim and Hans). Descent to Pradollano was very long and hard, due to the enormous amount of snow. | |
| Posted Jun 22, 2006 3:13 pm | ||
| Jay Osborne | Date Climbed: June 2005 | |
| I headed into the mountains from Capileira with my backpack 8pm on a Saturday. It contained my Spanish text book, Los Pilares de la Tierra (1000+ pgs), Spain travel book (1000+ pgs), food, and water. I had no tent or sleeping bag. I freezed my butt off that night and woke up early at 6am (this is early for a college student). At 7 I met some guys from southern Spain and hiked the entire day with them reaching the peak. They were very friendly (mountain people are typically the best, especially in Spain), and we shared some drinks at the bottom on Sunday. It was a great trip. | |
| Posted Dec 16, 2005 2:01 am | ||
| John Climber | Route Climbed: Normal - West Slope Date Climbed: 7 december 2005 | |
| Easily climbed alone in two hours and 40 minutes from Poqueira hut, with perfect weather conditions: almost no wind, relatively warm (2 degrees celsius at 7:15 a.m.). Perfect snow conditions. Actually, not very much snow. Crampons were needed at that early hours for a convenient quickly progress. The upper part of the route had less snow and it was more rocky. Descended to Refugio de la Caldera (non guarded hut) and climbed the "Punta de Loma Pelada" (3.185 m) over the East slopes, with perfect snow conditions. Descend to the "Refugio Villa Vientos", on the wide south ridge of this mountain. This is an idyllic non-guarded hut at 3.060 m on thissouth ridge. Further over the ridge to the south and back to the hut of Poqueira. | |
| Posted Dec 9, 2005 12:52 pm | ||
| igneouscarl | Route Climbed: From Mirador de Trevelez Date Climbed: 1st November 2005 | |
| Excellent weather for the 1st Nov. Superb Views! | |
| Posted Nov 7, 2005 2:15 am | ||
| onlynine | Route Climbed: Normal Date Climbed: 24 sep 2005 | |
| On a nice sunny day 3 guys and I walked to the top. | |
| Posted Oct 1, 2005 11:54 am | ||
| Phillip Stasiw | Route Climbed: Capileira Date Climbed: 7 January 2004 | |
| Lot of snow fall from previous night,Refugio Poqueira is excellent,try the Mulled wine!Beautiful mountain landscape,well different to the granada side,walked to emergency hut near the shoulder but the group were tired and would not have been off the mountain till midnight!!!Ill return soon to traverse all the 3000m peaks,cant wait. | |
| Posted Feb 17, 2004 9:50 am | ||
| Dan Bailey | Route Climbed: none Date Climbed: march 2001 | |
| We tried the Central Couloir on n.face...but we failed. The wind pinned us down in a refuge near the n.face of the mountain, and we could hardly venture outside for 2 days. Couldn't really stand, let alone climb. | |
| Posted Feb 10, 2004 11:39 am | ||
| Erling Juul | Route Climbed: Capileira - Refugio Poqueira - Mulhacen Date Climbed: 5.january 2004 | |
| "We drove the road GR411 up to 2050 m where we started the walk and could put on skis at 2320 m. We stayed one night at Refugio Poqueira at 2500 m The first day was a 4,5 h trip for us. Most of it on skis. The next day we started with skis from the hut at 08.45. We had skins on our skis and walked the rather gentle ridge from "Canada de la Iglesia" to the summit of Mulhacen. We spent 4,5 hours on the ascent. On the summit it was about 0ºC, blue sky and practically no wind, and a spectacular view: Africa, the Mediterranean and “half of Spain”. The descent was not that nice due to the windblown snow. On the last part down we followed the road and could ski almost to the roadblock at 2160 m. For a more detailed description of my trip in Norwegian you could go to http://www.fjellforum.net/viewtopic.php?t=780" | ||
| Posted Jan 25, 2004 9:55 am | ||
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