The Teide walk: my sunrise on the roof of Spain (II)
There's no better alarm clock than the illusion. A las cinco menos cuarto de la mañana, fifteen minutes before the alarm is active mobile, ya estamos pie in face for them últimos 450 meters vertical drop of the subida Teide. The literature on the side of the room and Vaci is the refuge of Altavista in Trajan sucede the typical Montañeros hurgando in Oscuridad in search of their clothing. A hasty breakfast was suficiente para marcha Fitness. Outside is quite dark and for nine degrees, a temperature advisable to leave the windshield in the bag and only a sweater wrap.
After you adjust the headlamps illuminate the road, Altavista we left the 5:25 along with another dozen people (everyone who has gone to sleep here wants to see the sunrise on the summit of Teide and that between five and six in the shelter is empty). The guard explained to us that it will take an hour to get to the end of the cable car and half an hour to travel the distance between The Rambleta and the summit of the Bravo Telesphorus way.
As if they were pursued by debt collection agencies, those in head impose a rhythm too strong, contraindicated running to start walking
One of Ringler lanterns ECHA to walk abriéndose step in the oscuridad. As if they were pursued by debt collection agencies, those in head impose a rhythm too strong, contraindicated running to start walking, cuando of you it is es calentar muscles and get them cogiendo rate it. Los comienzos casi siempre meteóricos forces to the stops early and happens so también at this time. Places us in the head and then on to keep pace Nuestro, muy but soon lost contact with her hilera of lanterns that follow national, Cuyo flare flickers mountain abajo.
The rise but are exigente muy comfortable. La oscuridad difficult Cualquiera reference rate and, as are the primer got time, Only we can be guided by them we will tiempos en el refugio given. And 45 minutes he reached the end of it chairlift, a 3.550 meters. We have been adhered to rises only one Bilbao, because his two companions have preferred to stay in the shelter. The slut has left yesterday sequels and this time I feel strong and really enjoy the rise, which hardens substantially at the end, which becomes increasingly cold and the wind blows hard.
Sulphurous fumes crater indicate the proximity of the top. Warm puffs are sprouting from the dark and caress your face
Sulphurous fumes crater indicate the proximity of the top. Warm puffs are sprouting from the dark and caress your face as greeting our arrival at the summit. The first thing you see is a little mouse snaking through the rocks. Few titanic tasks I can imagine that this rodent food every day buscándose 3.717,98 meters. The crumbs of tourists will help, Insurance, to obtain the support. It's half past six. Another four people are at the top, nestled among the rocks trying to keep the wind. Holed on rocks waiting for the coming of dawn the mountain seem spectra. We struggled to get here a little over an hour from the shelter. The east coast of Tenerife the mist looms a day to be born.
No peak is equal to another. The weather conditions, the effort required to achieve, the minor or major company, landscape or mood are never the same and make them all different. This is a special moment, certainly. Despite the cold and fatigue, everyone is happy.
Entrenched in the rocks on the top waiting for the coming of dawn the mountain seem spectra
We fit between some rocks waiting for the dawn will give us some unforgettable postcard, but the clouds get in our desires and hide the sun. A couple of climbers decide to come down and give us a corner stone that almost burned. From the bowels of Teide comes the heat needed to beat the cold. In exchange, the volcano is charged a toll: stains left by the stone in his pants will not go ever.
We are an hour to the top, during which he is reaching more people. Eventually we met at the summit about twenty, including a seven year old child with his parents up from the shelter. Bring gloves and socks is covered with warm clothing to the eyebrows, so we offer our rudimentary stove to heat entering. The day has desperado and now we can enjoy the sights around us, including the crater we have behind us, next to last before we almost blindly.
A couple of climbers decide to come down and give us a corner stone that almost burned. From the bowels of Teide comes the heat needed to beat the cold
Now it is the most complicated: the fall that will test the knee of my partner and his recent operation ligaments. We took it easy and in an hour and five minutes (as well as rising cost us) arrived at the shelter in Altavista, now closed pending relief arrives Guardian, whom we met way cable car, already dreaming of your holidays. We congratulate you for having saved the trickiest stretch without a slip and parts! Fernando loses his footing and he sits on the floor. Uncertainty over the fate of his knee only lasts a second, it rises quickly clearing any forecast ash. Respite relieved: cable car an hour over two car, a stumble could we conceive a headache.
We rested for twenty minutes to eat something. It's nine o'clock. We expect 50 minutes for the zig-zags of pumice, slippery and treacherous, and the same for the dirt soporific. Three hours and twenty minutes after leaving the summit we reached the parking White Mountain. A helicopter flies over the slopes of Teide in search of an injured hiker in the area between the shelter and The Rambleta, certainly someone we have crossed the descent. And total, up and down Mount Teide from here cost us, in two days, seven hours and ten minutes, so with the permits in order to do well in one day without sleep in the shelter. An hour and a half later we are in the Fanabe beach.
