SummitPost.org

Last time seen: December 19th, 2008.
Possible place: La Pedriza, Sierra de Guadarrama...
Gear: rucksack, sleeping-bag and boots.

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/pu ... 9483.shtml

The topic is also here (in Spanish)

I hope they find him soon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sierra_de_Guadarrama

http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Pedriza

Here and here DMT. El Yelmo is so nice and pure granite

Dingus Milktoast wrote:Thanks. Looks a lot like parts of California. Similar climate?

Hot dry summers, moist cool winters? Scrub land plants (we call it chaparal, I suspect you do as well?) in the lower ranges?

Hard to find someone off trail, if so? Thick brush, very difficult to navigate?

Cheers
DMT

Yep, I think Pedriza's climate is similar to parts of California though I've never been in the USA. Summers are warm and somehow dry. Winters are cool but not so moist. Concerning chaparral (with double R), there are many rockroses at low altitudes. They are named jaras in Spanish. So we call jaral to that thicket. It's very hard to find someone off trail and that combined with rocks make La Pedriza seems like a labyrinth

Diego Sahagún wrote:

Dingus Milktoast wrote:Thanks. Looks a lot like parts of California. Similar climate?

Hot dry summers, moist cool winters? Scrub land plants (we call it chaparal, I suspect you do as well?) in the lower ranges?

Hard to find someone off trail, if so? Thick brush, very difficult to navigate?

Cheers
DMT

Yep, I think Pedriza's climate is similar to parts of California though I've never been in the USA. Summers are warm and somehow dry. Winters are cool but not so moist. Concerning chaparral (with double R), there are many rockroses at low altitudes. They are named jaras in Spanish. So we call jaral to that thicket. It's very hard to find someone off trail and that combined with rocks make La Pedriza seems like a labyrinth

Very similar "Mediterranian" climate and landscape to Spain (been there once, Madrid, Barcelona & the Catalan region). With its chapparel landscape and temperate, dry climate, the early Spanish explorers felt right at home when they came into the California area on North America 400 yers ago. Both places are still similar today - crowded with lots of people and a lot of them speak Spanish (although with a Mexican dialect over here).

Body ‘could be missing man’.

Fin a diez meses de angustia

That wide and difficult gully to the left of El Yelmo (1719 m) is called Hueco de las Hoces, where the body has been found:

http://www.europapress.es/madrid/notici ... 54317.html (In Spanish)