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[QUOTE="Bachibouzouk, post: 789014, member: 53864"] Almansa to Alpera (Day One). I had hoped to walk over the Sierra de Mugron rather than around it on this occasion. My IGN map clearly has a graded track of some kind indicated on it. I'd done a little forward planning - to no success. Internet and various Google maps were of no help. Nor was the Tourist Office in Almansa (the Sierra de Mugron is in a different municipality and that closed the question - prestamente). Hombre, I was only looking for some advise from someone who presumably knows the surrounding area well. None of which put me off, even if the Sierra did look like a steep cliff from the castle ramparts! In fact the Sierra de Mugron, from the half distance of Almansa is like a breaking tsunami wave. Once clear of the motorway instead of following the signs left for the Camino I paddled straight ahead. The saddle between the two ends of the wave looked the most promising break. I followed my nose with the various aerials on the crest as a pointer. I spent a good couple of hours looking for the route indicated on my IGN map. There was no sign of it. And it's not as though any path would be hidden in the trees, there aren't any, or behind a hidden facade. What you see is what you get with a cliff face. I must have walked half the length of the Sierra when I got fed up. Before I knew it I'd rejoined the yellow markers and the Civil War bunkers. Bit of a waste of a morning? Not really. I'd avoided walking along the motorway and the railway line. But I was really thrown when later that afternoon, sometime around El Carrascal, looking back I could clearly see a route working its way down from the aerials on the saddle! Of course looking back on the Sierra de Mugron from Alpera is an all together different scene. The trough between the waves familiar to any surfer. All of which meant that I didn't make it to the Ayuntamiento till after 15:00. I didn't have a mobile number for the hospitaleros that everyone talks so highly of and inspite of the barmaid at the bar in front of the Ayuntamiento's best efforts we couldn't raise anyone. I've had to settle for the pricier Hostal Cazador. Pretty sure something could have been worked out but I needed a shower, a sherbert and a siesta. I've been surprised by how green the countryside is. Green shoots everywhere. More like spring than the parched autumn scenery I was expecting. I know there were very heavy downfalls and flash floodings in this part of Spain earlier in the month. Still I am surprised. Pools and puddles of water not infrequent on the route. In fact so much humidity in the ground that the Almansa bowl was mist covered until near enough midday today. Alfín del Asfalto Postscript - I hear later that the Sierra de Mugron is private property, whatever that means. There is a Bronze Age (?) archaeological site up there somewhere and because it is on private property it is only required to be open four (4) days a year. The pictures on Google looking amazing. [/QUOTE]
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