Monday, November 28, 2011

Camino del Rey

Another sunny day in Spain!
One of the highlights of El Chorro is the Camino del Rey, or the King's walk.  It was built in the early 1900's for the workers in the hydroelectric projects in the gorge.  It is now in disrepair and is a via ferrata, meaning that a harness and slings to clip into a cable for safety are required.  For the most part the pathway is good walking about 100 feet above the river, but there are some exciting places where we had to walk on the girders around holes.  It was a nice way to spend a rainy, stormy day and I didn't whimper too much when I got scared.  Ian loved it!

Accessing the camino was a little hair-raising.

Traversing around a large hole.

Don't look down!

Looking up the valley towards El Chorro.

It held everyone else, should hold me...

Looking up the valley.

Last big hole before solid ground.

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