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Granada/Sierra Nevada any tips

by snappyandrew
Sun, Feb 04, 2018 13:57
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this feb half term the family are skiing and staying in Sierra Nevada whilst I’m tagging along with my bike. My idea is to drive down the mountain each day and have 5 days cycling.  

Any tips/routes would be appreciated 

Thanks in advance

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CasperCCC | 7 years ago
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Oh. I'm jealous. We were out there for a week in October. Split it between the North of the mountains, with a few trips up to Pica Veleta.

On your side of the mountains, we had a really good day heading up to Capileira, dropping back down again and then across to Trevelez. The road back from Trevelez along to Almegijar was awesome.

How many days will you be able to be out riding?

 

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snappyandrew replied to CasperCCC | 7 years ago
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Oh. I'm jealous. We were out there for a week in October. Split it between the North of the mountains, with a few trips up to Pica Veleta.

On your side of the mountains, we had a really good day heading up to Capileira, dropping back down again and then across to Trevelez. The road back from Trevelez along to Almegijar was awesome.

How many days will you be able to be out riding?

 

Thanks for this. I arrive next Monday (12th Feb) and will have 5 days riding. Really looking forward to it but they are having a cold spell at the moment so I expect I'll be taking the car down the mountain and heading south where its only 15 degrees*

 

*Swoons at the thought 

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Jez Ash | 7 years ago
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Sounds like you're the other side of the mountain, but ...

We stayed in Velez de Benaudalla for a week a couple of Christmases ago, and the riding around there was just sublime.  As others have said, beautiful, super-quiet roads, courteous drivers, just brilliant.

I think these were the best two rides we did:

https://www.strava.com/activities/452750736

https://www.strava.com/activities/453989586

Oh, I loved it down there.

 

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arfa | 7 years ago
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Was at Pradollana last April (to ski) and Astana were there using it as a training base at the time. Given the base is 2000 metres you could just roll down the mountain as far as you can face cycling back up. The roads are good but do get busier at the weekend so you might want to factor in. Parts of the road between the base of the mountain and the resort have some fairly steep drops off the side and my passengers in the car were fairly quiet on the journey up and down ! It's a stunning part of the world and have a look at ride withgps or Strava for route ideas

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DaSy | 7 years ago
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I stayed in Fondales, near Pitres in the Sierra Nevada a few years ago and had the best time on the bike. I went out with a load of MTBers, but was the lone roadie. The ride leader who was guiding the MTBers gave me a tourist map of the whole of the Sierra Nevada national park, which was a folded A4 sheet, to navigate with, and to be honest, that was all I needed.

The main road along the valley that went through Pitres, Trevelez  as far a Bayarcal was a joy to ride, I did this as an out and back along the valley. Also going out through Cadiar, Haza de Lino then up the GR5204 and A345 to Cadiar then back through Trevelez (which is one of the highest villages in Spain and bloody unwelcome after a long day of riding!).

I really liked the riding around there, it was really quiet with very few cars and those there were, were really polite.

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