Ibex Trex Newsletter Issue 2

It’s that time of year again when the fields, orchards and vine yards are busy. The whole place comes alive after the long summer of fiestas and siestas. People are picking and beating the trees to release the fruit into large nets, before they go and take them for processing.

Almonds are husked, olives are pressed and grapes are squashed in what is the busiest time of year for the local farmers. The vegetables are in abundance with alien squashes that just fit into a wheelbarrow, tomato vines touching the ground with their fruit, pomegranate trees and fig trees bowing under the weight and the orange and lemon trees staring to show their fruit. 

All this is going on whilst the nights are getting cooler and the days shorter, making it perfect for walking.

We have had our first snow on the very tops of Mulhacen and Veleta, which probably won’t last but it is a good sign for a good winter ahead. Plenty of snow means for us great snowy mountain routes to tackle and for the farmers plenty of water for the following year.