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[QUOTE="Bachibouzouk, post: 1075675, member: 53864"] Mondejar de Viana to Cifuentes Set off early and climbed the 300m over 2kms up to Teta Redonda. The climb is pretty straight forward, some broken and rocky path also graded track. Where it becomes trickier there is a chain hand-rail (20 metres) and a caged metallic ladder (also about 20 metres). Anyone who has got this far will manage the climb, no problem. Views from the top are spectacular, only blighted by the cooling towers of the nuclear power station at Trillo. Early in the morning, you are above the mist that fills every valley below. I would urge anyone to go up. At the cleavage between Redonda and Larga, I missed the best photo opportunity, possibly of my whole life, by a split second. Half a dozen mountain goats (or possibly ibex?) were jumping from one rock stack to another with a clear blue sky as background. Almost literally gliding across. It probably isn't too surprising that The Tetas de Viana are used as a symbol for the fight against breast cancer. The previous weekend 500 volunteers had climbed the Teta Redonda and set a mark in the Guinness Book of Records by placing more than 5,700 square metres of fabric on the top forming a giant pink ribbon. For those of you who want to stick rigidly to the Camino, why not leave your rucksack at the albergue (you'll have the key) and climb up with just your camera? It won't take you anymore than a couple of hours to get up and down. I took my rucksack with me and left it at the bottom of the metallic ladder (there was no-one else around) and carried on down to Trillo. The route to Trillo is clearly indicated from the cleavage between the two Tetas. It's 5.5kms to Trillo this way, but note, this could be a sticky and slippery track after any rain. There's no way up Teta Larga that I could find. You'd need climbing gear and, because I've been reading about George Leigh Mallory lately, I leave that for 'other men, less wise'.* Breezed through Trillo with just a quick stop for a boccadillo and a cerveza. Nice enough town but it was Saturday and the town was full of weekenders and middle aged men in flashy leathers and very expensive motorbikes. It's a lovely walk beyond Trilllo along the burbling Rio Cifuentes. Many quince trees in fruit. A fruit I don't see very often. We had a quince tree in our garden when I was a child and I well remember my grandmother spending long hours peeling, stewing, bottling and labelling her quince jelly. I'm still very partial to all those sweet derivatives of the 'membrillo'. Gargoles de Abajo has 'cuevas' but with very different entrances to those of Villaconejos de Trabaque. Several fuentes, a bar which was closed but showed signs that it had recently been open, and a 'chiringuito' down by the Roman bridge, which definitely was open (may only be open at weekends?). Just outside the pueblo is a derelict water-mill and an industrial sized chimney, which I was told was the paper-mill from which the Republic printed its bank notes. In Gargoles de Arriba there is a bar (closed on Thursdays), a fuente and apparently a tienda. Bar Salmeron in Cifuentes was closed when I arrived and there was no number posted on the door to call for the albergue. I wasn't too upset, and probably had the number somewhere in my bag, as the write-up for the albergue is hardly inspiring. I pushed on to the Hostal San Roque (30.00 euros for a single room and which I did not find to be too far from the centre of town). Hostal Secuoyas, in the Plaza Mayor is, of course, much more central but appeared somewhat more upmarket. It has no reception, so either advanced booking or a phone call is required. It's a short climb up to the 'castillo', which is closed off for restoration. If you've been up the Tetas you will have seen much better views, particularly as the castle is surrounded by tall trees. The secret synagogue is still behind a hideous iron gate but the portal is clearly on display. I was told that this was probably a meeting p!ace that Conversos used to celebrate their true faith. Alfìn del Asfalto * George Leigh Mallory on the 1921 reconnaissance expedition to Everest on first seeing the Kangshung Face. The Kangshung Face wasn't climbed until 1983. The great Stephen Venables was part of the second expedition to do so. This team were the first to do it without oxygen. Venables became the first Brit to summit Everest without supplemental oxygen, surviving overnight in the open in the Death Zone (very few have done that) and spending more than 90 hours in the Death Zone, an altitude at which, it is said, the human being cannot adapt. He did lose some digits to frostbite but unlike Mallory he survived to tell the tale. As Rheingold Messner was to say 'You did a great thing but you were lucky'. The toils of the Camino become relative. [/QUOTE]
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