Wikiloc | Gaucín - up to the top of El Hacho and return off-piste through the woods Trail

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Distance: 3.21 mi
Elevation gain: 1,283 ft
Technical difficulty: Moderate
Elevation loss: 1,283 ft
Max elevation: 3,248 ft
TrailRank: 49
Min elevation: 2,066 ft
Trail type: Loop

Moving time: one hour 53 minutes
Time: 2 hours 31 minutes
Coordinates: 930
Uploaded: November 16, 2023
Recorded: November 2023

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near Gaucín, Andalucía (España)

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This is a circular route which takes you up to the top of El Hacho and returns on a shorter route than the Gaucin Town Hall Route No.1 (also marked up as "Sendero Sierra del Hacho").

This route follows the main Sendero Sierra del Hacho route (Town Hall route No.I) to the top of El Hacho; when you get to the signpost at the top make sure you go LEFT to the east peak for a fabulous view over Gaucin village. There is a green metal geocache box there in the rocks which contains a visitors book - please sign the book for the Town Hall records! After the east peak, this route goes across to the west peak and the trig point, and then follows the Sendero Sierra de Hacho route for the first part of the descent. After 15 minutes of steep downhill, we leave the Town Hall route to do a shorter loop and we go "off-piste" through the woods. There is a choice of goat paths to follow on this section and the recorded Wikiloc route is only one option. What you need to do is keep going in the same direction, bearing downhill and left, until you either meet a fence ahead (in which case keep going downhill with the fence on your right and you'll meet a gate and the main path) OR you'll just meet the main path below. In both cases, once you've re-joined the obvious GR141 path, turn right and you will soon return to the signpost below the "calera" pit. Then retrace your route downhill back to the petrol station.

Waypoints

Start at Gaucin petrol station and follow Town Hall Route I and Sendero Sierra del Hacho

Start the climb on a rocky path inbetween two fences

Lovely view of Gaucin

Reach the 'col' (Puerto de los HInojales) after about 20 minutes

Keep following the main path (GR141 marker posts and blue paint marks)

Turn left at the signposts

'Calera' pit and informative signboard

The path zig-zags uphill; at the corners look for the wooden steps

When you reach the large rock, go to the left

Photo ofHere look backwards in the direction you have just come - you need to climb up to the mirador

Here look backwards in the direction you have just come - you need to climb up to the mirador

There are chains to help you climb up the rocky steps

Mirador

Look left at the corner and climb up the rock 'steps'

Rest spot and viewpoint

About 1 hour to here from the petrol station. Turn LEFT to go to the east peak and the geocache

View from the east peak and the geocache location

Go across the open area and climb up to the group of trees and the trig point

Trig point. From here descend towards the large rock/cairn, and the blue stripes

Head for here

When you reach a large rock and the path levels out, LEAVE the main route.

This is where you leave the main path and start to do the "off-piste" section. Keep heading downhill through the woods, there are many goat paths so there isn't one "correct" route. If you keep going downhill in the same direction (diagonally left and downhill) you will reach the path below. If you reach a fence ahead then just follow the fence downhill and you will meet the path.