EA5/AT-040, Cerro La Mola
I tricked my girlfriend into this last summit with the promise that there is a nice "Gaudi style" church on the summit ... well, kind of ...
This church and the ruins of a castle are next to the parking lot at position 38.409362, -0.794555
The church is called"Santuario de Santa María Magdalena" and the castle is "Castillo de la Mola", see these websites for more info:
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Now the SOTA summit is still more than an hour from the parking lot, it's a 1.2 km walk, with 185m ascent. This is the track we followed, it's the same as on the SMP by Thomas, DL8DBW.
The same advice as always ... if you do this walk on a hot day like we did, take enough water !
At first you pass an abandoned quarry, then have to find the start of the path, but it is very well indicated with white and orange stripes. The first part is a bit steep, later it gets flatter, and then the final climb is again a bit steeper. A walking stick is a good help at some points.
The quarry.
Start of the track.
Final climb to the summit, but beware, the top in the middle of the picture is not the summit ... yet!
The summit is still another climb over the rigde to the right.
No radio towers at the summit, lots of space for antennas, and a n ice view of the church and castle, as you can see in the short video below the picture.
Luckily I brought my umbrella and wore a hat, so I could operate in the shade ;-)
This concludes the short EA5 trip of 2021. See you all on another one ...
73, Luc - ON7DQ
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