Pelayo - Prisoner route
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 6.51 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,749 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,749 ft
- Max elevation
- 2,185 ft
- TrailRank
- 30
- Min elevation
- 748 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 2 hours 49 minutes
- Time
- 4 hours 55 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1762
- Uploaded
- October 30, 2022
- Recorded
- October 2022
near Pelayo, Andalucía (España)
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Itinerary description
It started off well with a coffee in the Bar Las Piedras… then steep climb up through forest behind Pelayo, we kept going off track which made the going really tough in places. It was very overgrown with thorny brambles ripping at your skin and clothes. We weren’t well prepared and were wearing shorts! The route has some narrow paths, very rocky. Some nice sections on soft forest ground and we saw the odd goat and cow. We climbed up to the top of the highest rock and would have had fabulous views of Gibraltar etc except for the low lying cloud. On the way down we met up with the prisoners road built by Franco’s civil war captives, very rough road too… poor things mostly died of hunger while working on it…
All in all quite a painful route… would I do it again? No!
All in all quite a painful route… would I do it again? No!
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