Vereda de la Estrella - Cueva Secreta
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 13.87 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,675 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 4,708 ft
- Max elevation
- 5,994 ft
- TrailRank
- 38
- Min elevation
- 3,822 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 2 hours 14 minutes
- Coordinates
- 1957
- Uploaded
- July 5, 2014
- Recorded
- January 2010
near Cortijada Dehesa del Calvario, Andalucía (España)
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Itinerary description
This walk starts where an unpaved road ends. If you have enough time, you can start this walk a few kilometers earlier as in this splendid gorge, opposite to the site of the road, there is a footpath with nice hanging bridges. At the end of the road, there is a parking site belonging to a tavern. As it was for sale, it's no problem to park your car there. Another parking is a few hundreds meters earlier (a sharp turn to the right, towards the river).
The lower part of this wonderful walk was originally built to access an nowadays abandonned iron & copper mine. The easy version of the walk, without much climbing, is just following the river and returning along the same way. However it's really worthwhile to do the circular version and preferably clockwise, to get splendid views of the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada. After the high part of this walk, when you almost join the main, lower path, you have to cross the river. By the end of May 2014, the bridge was not yet repaired (see the last picture, where you see the wooden bridge laying in the river). We had to take off our hiking boots to cross the river as the water level was just too high. In summer time it might be possible to cross with boots.
Credits : see the following superb websites for a more detailed description of this walk and many others :
http://www.treksierranevada.com/vereda-de-la-estrella.html
http://www.topwalks.net/en/guejar_sierra/genil.htm
It's not a technical difficult walk, but it's a long walk.
The lower part of this wonderful walk was originally built to access an nowadays abandonned iron & copper mine. The easy version of the walk, without much climbing, is just following the river and returning along the same way. However it's really worthwhile to do the circular version and preferably clockwise, to get splendid views of the highest peaks of the Sierra Nevada. After the high part of this walk, when you almost join the main, lower path, you have to cross the river. By the end of May 2014, the bridge was not yet repaired (see the last picture, where you see the wooden bridge laying in the river). We had to take off our hiking boots to cross the river as the water level was just too high. In summer time it might be possible to cross with boots.
Credits : see the following superb websites for a more detailed description of this walk and many others :
http://www.treksierranevada.com/vereda-de-la-estrella.html
http://www.topwalks.net/en/guejar_sierra/genil.htm
It's not a technical difficult walk, but it's a long walk.
Waypoints
Waypoint
0 ft
Bridge
Bridge
Waypoint
4,409 ft
Bridge (Puente del Burro)
Waypoint
4,941 ft
Bridge across river
Waypoint
0 ft
Broken bridge
At the time of writing, the bridge was not yet repaired. At the end of May, we had to take of our hiking boots to cross the river as the water level was just too high. In summer time it might be possible to cross with boots.
Waypoint
5,948 ft
Cross stream
Waypoint
5,774 ft
Cueva Secreta (cave)
Refugio o abrigo natural.
Waypoint
4,373 ft
El Abuelo (big chestnut tree)
Waypoint
5,738 ft
Left Path
Waypoint
4,012 ft
Merge with Sulayr (long distance trail)
Waypoint
3,806 ft
Private parking
U kunt uw auto laten staan en steek de brug over de Arroyo San Juan om de route te starten
Waypoint
0 ft
Public parking area
Trk
Waypoint
7 ft
Ref. Cucaracha
Refugio Forestal del Calvario, o popularmente llamado de la Cucaracha
Waypoint
7 ft
Refugio del Aceral (closed)
Parque Natural De Sierra Nevada
Waypoint
5,886 ft
Right downhill
Waypoint
3,848 ft
Start/ Finish
Waypoint
5,876 ft
Take right fork
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