"After having a cold I decide to go to the mountains to finish recovering. The highway leaves me near Totana and from there a mountain road that passes through Aledo takes me to the natural park. The sky is pretty clear today however there are not too many hikers in the area. I go up with encouragement enjoying the landscape and the silence while I decide that after reaching the top I will go down the slope through the middle of the forest. When I get to the car I feel much better than when I left the house, the pine air is pure medicine." — franciscobirruezo • Nov 20, 2022

"I am heading to the town of Fortuna to later arrive at the Cortado de Las Peñas. In this place I am surprised to see quite a few hikers enjoying the warm temperatures despite the gray sky. However, I don't meet anyone on the way up this mountain, so I enjoy a good moment of silence. After eating some fruit near the top, a spider catches my eye and I take a picture of it. At home I see that it is an endemic species and has been cataloged very recently. Shells of land mollusks, butterflies, grasshoppers and other insects I find along the path. Quite a few rabbit tracks and the marks left by foxes in their roaming." — franciscobirruezo • Oct 30, 2022

"I had a few hours in the afternoon and needed a "peak". Walked from my hotel in the French quarter up past the creepy cemetery, on to the castle, then back along the sea cliffs. A nice 8.5km hike with about 150m of total elevation gain. A lot of abandoned or poorly maintain infrastructure, but a nice hike and nice to get off the streets of Barcelona so quickly.cFirst international peak post-COVID. " — jak5280 • Sep 14, 2022

"Weekend circular excursion with backpacks and sleeping bags through the mountains of the Cartagena coast to Cala Aguilar, a very demanding route that requires good physical shape because we carry the water and food necessary for the weekend as well like everything you need to rappel. Despite being in summer, the night in these places is cool and more typical of a desert climate. We try to avoid the hottest hours for the walks and for this reason we start the walk around 5 a.m. The arrival at Cala Aguilar is endless, but crystal clear water awaits us down there and that encourages us. That same afternoon we entered the Cueva Neptuno of incredible beauty, but you have to rappel and then climb vertically to get out. Dinner and talk by the light of our lamps and a sky full of stars as a ceiling." — franciscobirruezo • Sep 10, 2022

"Weekend circular excursion with backpacks and sleeping bags through the mountains of the Cartagena coast to Cala Aguilar, a very demanding route that requires good physical shape because we carry the water and food necessary for the weekend as well like everything you need to rappel. Despite being in summer, the night in these places is cool and more typical of a desert climate. We try to avoid the hottest hours for the walks and for this reason we start the walk around 5 a.m. The arrival at Cala Aguilar is endless, but crystal clear water awaits us down there and that encourages us. That same afternoon we entered the Cueva Neptuno of incredible beauty, but you have to rappel and then climb vertically to get out. Dinner and talk by the light of our lamps and a sky full of stars as a ceiling." — franciscobirruezo • Sep 10, 2022