In early February comes a storm that leaves the last Tenerife Island for water and the edge of chaos and I take this opportunity to make the first ascent of Mount Teide year to see the first snow falls. There has been cold enough and the Pico Mountain Chahorra Old or not a jot snow.
I decide to climb the Pico Viejo and it's a lonely, quiet route than going by the Altavista refuge. So at eight o'clock I'm parked in the viewpoint of the noses of Teide with 1700 vertical meters ahead.
Palm Island with the sea of \u200b\u200bclouds almost always.
Sale
a perfect day and the visibility can see the background the island of Hierro and La Gomera in the first place.
noses or volcanoes.
Another volcano.
the Pico Viejo crater 800 meters in diameter. The summit of Pico Viejo is the second highest on the island with 3134 mts. altitude. It takes just over two hours, so I stop eating and drinking because I need the best.
One of the Teide little nose where it was spewing lava for three months in 1798 in what was the last eruption in the Teide National Park. In the background is the road and the parking lot where I left the car ....
.......... but what I have before I still like it more: the Teide pretty full of snow. The storm passed through here with some force.
and has become quite cold.
Then I have to put on crampons for the snow is hard as a rock.
There is a good ice verglas. This ice forms when meltwater dripping from the snow, with the temperature drop forms a hard ice crystal ....
... and the rocks take these curious forms.
The crater of Pico Viejo, behind the back Gomera and El Hierro.
The little thing is getting complicated because walking on ice has its dangers.
I missed, thank goodness that I find an information panel with which I can relocate, jejejejeje.
I do not have permission so I decide to go down the middle without going through the path of Bravo Telesforo whether they are the guards and not let me pass. The little thing will slowly steep and ice, for that, hard as a rock.
Ice and
Ocean in the background.
when I'm wearing crampons Perez de Tudela was a schoolboy with whom I "danced" his foot and did not give me a lot of security but I do not think of a little slip.
about to reach the top.
ice cubes.
Look back to the channel through which I uploaded. Ice has its one.
No photo, no top, so I put the trigger and clik. With a height of 3,718 meters above sea level and more of 7,000 meters above the ocean floor, is the highest peak in Spain, the landmass of any Atlantic Ocean and the third largest volcano on Earth from his base. Take that, there's that.
From above the Isla de la Palma.
La Gomera and El Hierro.
Canarión
And in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria.
La Fortaleza and behind the Orotva Valley. Too many houses for my taste.
And the chains cargaditas delimit the ice crater.
Again the self-timer.
in the hills around here has had to cool.
Santiago del Teide
the road that winds for up to Masca in the background.
And Pico Viejo.
Now is the most difficult, where I have gone down. The truth is that the hard time to step down, alone, without an ice ax and crampons that some are older than I, already a few. Under the face of the slope with five control points: two hands, two legs and ass.
Twenty minutes brings me down to the base but I do a lot more. Another poster who has suffered the effects of verglas.
route that I followed up and down. The last part we can say that it gets "interesting."
Under the same place but I get into one of the little nose.
And I leave the Pico Viejo or Mountain Chahorra ago.
Eight hours and twenty minutes later I am in the parking tired but happy.
the same route but without snow can be found here:
http://masca-mirandohaciaarriba.blogspot.com/2007/11/paisaje-lunar_30.html
And the climb to Teide, by On the other hand, here:
http://masca-mirandohaciaarriba.blogspot.com/2009/06/el-teide.html
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