The Mountains of Central Spain

Jacqueline is a professional potter and has spent most of her spare time walking, climbing and skiing in northern England, Scotland and the Alps. In the early 1990s she moved to Madrid, and was very excited to find herself living in the foothills of the Sierra de Guadarrama, a sprawling range of mountains rising to 2400m, with a magnificent variety of walking, no guidebooks, startlingly unreliable maps and only a handful of people venturing beyond the car parks or picnic spots. Later, there was the same privileged feeling of pioneering when she explored the bigger, more isolated and altogether rougher and tougher Sierra de Gredos, two hours to the west. She just had to write it all down!

Part Two - The Sierra de Gredos
INTRODUCTION
Chapter Three - The Sierra de Béjar. Routes 1-4
Chapter Four - Western Gredos. Routes 5-8
Chapter Five - Central Gredos
North Side - Routes 9-21
South Side - Routes 22-33
Chapter Six - Eastern Gredos. Routes 34-37

Part Three - The Sierra de Guadarrama
INTRODUCTION
Chapter Seven - Western Guadarrama. Routes 38-42
Chapter Eight - Central Guadarrama (West). Routes 43-49
Chapter Nine - Central Guadarrama (East). Routes 50-54
Chapter Ten - Upper Manzanares Basin. Routes 55-68
Chapter Eleven - Eastern Guadarrama. Routes 69-71



Part Four - Long Distance Routes
The GR10 in Guadarrama
Traverse of Central and West Gredos

Glossaries