Mallorca 2023 Day 11

SOTA EA6/MA-040 (Talaia d'Alcúdia)

which is also also valid for POTA EA-1195 La Victòria Natura 2000

and for  VGIB-006 – REG Atalaya de Alcudia

For this summit, we drove to the Ermita de la Victoria, where there is a nice parking (if you go early before it gets full!). Parking position is 39.873245, 3.170607.

I have posted my track on the SOTA Mapping Page, it's also available via SOTL.AS

The first part of the walk is a wide gravel road (a bit boring), until you arrive at the steep "wall".

At first it wasn't clear where the track was, it seems you can go anywhere you like, but after a while there is only one track remaining, and it is not so difficult to follow. Where needed, some wooden handrails have been built.

Here a 'collage' of three pictures of the YL walking the zig-zag route up to the ridge.

At some point you cross the ridge (see the 'dip" in the pictures above), after which it is only 10 more minutes to the summit.

Here the final ascent to the summit, the walk took us 1 hour and 25 minutes, but this included frequent stops to drink and take pictures.

At the summit is a vertice, a fire lookout, and several ruins.
Also a lot of goats, and luckily a nice big tree for some shadow.

 I had a lovely activation, with a few visits from my friends the mountain goats ...

... resulting in 42 QSO's with 8 S2S, and again working 4 ON friends. Nice result !

Afterwards we went for lunch and a short visit of the city of Alcúdia.
And of course I deserved a nice reward for all the trouble to climb that summit ! 

Mmmm ;-)

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