Hike to Mirador los Lobos

Thursday’s are for discovering new routes that may be good for that Saturday group but even if they are not, it means that we have have challenging hike to somewhere new. Today’s route fell almost into the second category, we need to do it again as we went a bit awry towards the end. Despite this the route was heavy going in parts but we were well rewarded with possibly some of the best views to date.

The first problem was actually finding where to start as we had to negotiate an urbanisation, but eventually found somewhere to park and we were only 70 mtr off the route. We eventually found the path that we were looking for only to find that it is actually a marked route, this is typical, as trying to find out information about routes is like trying to break the Enigma code.

Our route started upwards and gave us no rest bite from this until we reached the top, the path was mostly narrow, very rocky and quite steep in places. The lower section was through some very

pleasant pine woods with occasional glimpses of the wonderful vista across the Guadalhorce valley and to the mountains beyond. As we approached the top we left the trees behind and the environment changed to an almost moorland feel. The path led us to a cross roads and we opted to try the path to the Pico Jabalcuza, but decided that this would take too long and abandoned that for another day and took our path towards the Mirador.

Walking along the ridge of the Sierra the views were over the coastal towns and the Mediterranean on one side and the Guadalhorce valley and Malaga Mountains on the other, outstanding. We trekked along this path and eventually reached a villa which apparently is rented out at weekends by Torromolinos Council and en route to the Mirador was passed another one. Reaching the mirador certainly had a wow factor and one could only stand in awe at the magnificence of the views.

Our route down was difficult to define, but eventually found the right track, which was at one point in time had been a well made road, now fell into disorder. We passed through a disused quarry, only to find that we should have taken a different path at that point but ultimately the road and path would meet further down the mountain. The route that we took whilst longer was possibly quicker as it was easy going.

As we passed the quarry we spotted three Policia National vans and an ambulance in the quarry floor, at first we thought that there had been some sort of accident, but on closer observation it was several Policia having shooting practice. We were now on the tarmac surfaces access road to the quarry and found this somewhat hard on the feet.This lower section of this route was taking us again through pleasant pine woods and eventually led us out to the edge the town, and through the urbanisation and back to our cars.

It is our intention to return to this area and climb the Pico Jabalcuza and to discover the route along the valley away from the quarry.

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