Once up there it was easy to see how the females and young of the mountain goats had lost all their dignity (left at close range!), while the Alpine Accentors (right) have never had any! Northern Wheatears were everywhere and one undertook a spectacular ascent of nearly 100m, aided by the wind, to catch a high-flying butterfly. Over in the distance I saw what I took to be a group of dried trees and discovered that I was looking at a group of male goats with the biggest horns that I have ever seen.
José's advice: It is possible to go up to Veleta by a bus which leaves from the Albergue Universitario in Hoya de la Mora, thus saving time and energy for a more prolonged exploration of the sierra around; it has a limited number of places and there are details and timetable at this link :
http://www.nevasport.com/
Cars must be left in Hoya de Mora, near the Albergue Universitario, and the bus tickets collected in the reception of the Albergue which is very near the parking area. Once the bus drops you off (red on map) the ascending walk is quite easy but at one point the road curves round to the left and the rise steepens but carrying on there is a flatter earth track which one should follow, ignoring the track off to the left, (blue on the map). Where the main track ends there are several walks, but the refuge is to the left after walking up a small rise (green).I realise that the map has not come out very clearly and if anyone wishes a good copy, write to me and I'll be happy to send one on.
A word of advice from José, which I echo, is not to forget that one is in the high mountains and should go equipped accordingly as a 30 km/h wind can make life very unpleasant, even in the middle of summer as he, for example was sitting in a sheltered spot in the sun to get warm and that included a polar fleece under his anorak!
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