Rock windows

Sierra de La Cabrera. www.ipernity.com/doc/2247598/album/1042038

Rock window (perhaps hopefully onto a brighter future for us all?). The way I took (not a path at all really) went under this rock. Very common to have a giant boulder wedged over a gully in granite country! Granite forms on Pena del Tejo, a little to one side of La Sierra de La Cabrera proper but terrific scrambling territory in its own right. Indeed I spent a whole day here, intending to move on to the main ridge but finding a day's worth of interest at this place, including the mountain stream close-ups I sometimes post. photo taken 2012 and first posted on ipernity in 2017.

More granite shapes. La Sierra de La Cabrera. Shot taken in 2012 and first posted here in 2017. ***HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL MY IPERNITY FRIENDS. FINGERS CROSSED FOR IMPROVEMENTS IN ALL THINGS!!!***

H. A. N. W. E. everyone. Sierra de La Cabrera.

Sierra de La Cabrera granite. There are a number of great rock windows in this granite sierra.

Granite rock window. Overlooking the Valley of Bustarviejo. This was taken on 25 May, last year. I haven't walked anywhere in the Sierra since. Please take my word for it; this is a true rock window - I just couldn't quite get all four walls in the shot. I see photos from this Sierra on various sites but never this view. Why? Because to get here you need to scramble and to take (calculated) risks. It's never clear that you will get to a panoramic view or a rock window until it suddenly appears! Plus, there are no restaurants anywhere near so a Spaniard wouldn't even consider a walk here. 'Sandwiches!!!!!!- Are you kidding??'

Squeezing through here saved a few minutes!

Sierra de La Cabrera, below the Torres de Cancho Largo.

Sierra de La Cabrera, for Pam and Marie-claire. Granite, broom and rock window.

Sierra de La Cabrera, western end, looking through to the Bustarviejo Valley.

Sierra de La Cabrera granite.

Sierra de La Cabrera. Granite scenery. Rock window overlooking the Embalse (reservoir) de Atazar.

Sierra de La Cabtrera granite.

Sierra de La Cabrera granite, Cancho Largo seen through the window.

Sierra de La Cabrera.

On one of the (very) rare occasions my girlfirend came with me to the Mountains of Madrid, she liked this spot the best.

Near Logan Rock, Treryn Dinas (South), Porthcurno. A seagull or a boat would have been nice in the frame but I couldn't wait forever in the cramped stance I had to adopt!

I took my girlfriend here once. She was complaining about the path (or lack of one!), her footwear, her fear of heights and then she scrambled up and round the corner ahead of me - with a helpful push à la derrière from yours truly - and suddenly she saw the point of all the effort and struggle and puff!!! .. and why I do this!! (La Sierra de La Cabrera, The Bustarviejo Valley below and lots of granite! In the distance from right to left, Peñalara partly in cloud, Bola del Mundo, Sierra de La Pedriza - La Sierra de Cabrera's big brother in the granite extravaganza stakes!)