Started way farther than needed, then got lost in shrubs at almost sea level (embarassing, I know) and had to route back for half a km through thick vegetation just to finally find a passage that wasn't boar sized. When I finally got back on the main dirt road to the park entrance, I realized by how far I missed it and how many meters I could have saved just parking nearer to the path.
Still in the maze at the park entrance (no signs whatsoever) I could not locate the right one and took one that looked promising but realized later pointed straight away from where I wanted to go. So again I decided to cut through thick mediterranean vegetation to try and reach the path I was looking for (I knew where it should have been with map and gps). Finally I found the right one, not before wasting more than triple the energies that were really needed to get to that same point. Part of the fun of hiking!
After that, I ventured on a corkscrew path that got thinner after every bend, deeply excavated by veichles that I theorize have been enduros (nothing larger than them could pass at this point, and a mountain bike could have not made such damages). On maps it looks like crawling up a wall, and when you are there it feels exactly like that, the left/right ascension simply seems neverending, still the views towards the sea and slopes are really nice.
When you finally get to the pass at around 600masl it gets way better, the path through the forest is easy to follow and undisturbed by motor veichles.
At 750 you do a quick traverse around a forested minor peak and reach a disturbing clearing. We are in the southern limits of probably the largest uninterrupted holm oak forest in Europe and here it is, a square km of thinned out forest where only the largest specimens have been left standing (see pic I uploaded). The smaller ones are missing, their sad stumps emerging between tons of cutting remains and a visibly dried out underwood terrain at 800masl. Not sure about the reasoning behind this. If this was planned by local authorities, if it is a private property where they have permission for logging or if it was some criminal's fault, I surely can't say. Still it felt like something was out of place. Really hope this is not going to be some policy they want to deploy on the forest because it surely doesnt seem beneficial.
Still got a good sign from nature there, as the strong winds prevented a small group of female sardinian deer to hear me arriving and I had for a few minutes the chance to see them in their beauty just 30 meters away. Unfortunately I cracked a stick (damn loggers) with my right foot as I was trying to slowly get closer and they got away pretty fast.
At the summit is a derelict small chapel (hence the peak name, "Church peak") and a lot of damage and garbage from probably the same kind of criminals responsible for the deforestation, those who are authorised by institutions to deface nature and aren't required to pay the price for restoring it when they leave (see pictures).
Sad to see such a terrible and shameful display on my beloved motherland, what a ruined experience and grief. But this story has to be told and shown.