{"id":6197,"date":"2019-08-02T20:51:00","date_gmt":"2019-08-03T00:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/?p=6197"},"modified":"2021-10-22T13:43:55","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T17:43:55","slug":"bajo-los-picos-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/2019\/08\/02\/bajo-los-picos-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Bajo los Picos Hike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Traslated as “below the peaks”, this circular hike had truly amazing views of the mountains. It starts in the tiny village of Mogrovejo, which had 44 inhabitants in 2008. It doesn’t look as if it’s grown much since then. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The recommendation was to start the hike early in the morning and we were very glad that we made the effort for an early start. The morning views were spectacular!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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View of the village from the free parking lot, with the mountains peeking from behind the clouds.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Trailhead.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The views over the rooftops are pretty amazing.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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As are the flowers on the ground.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Checking out the thistles growing by the trail.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Love the cloud wisps. The air is very crisp and fresh.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Picos de Europa – possibly named as they were the first sight for ships arriving from the Americas.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Deer with antlers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Black slug. The short antennae are sensory tentacles, used for feeling and tasting. The longer ones are optic tentacles, used for sight and smell. They are retractable, and can be moved independently. The hole in its side is a pneumostome, used for breathing and leads to the slug’s lung.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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That’s Nolan’s finger, for size comparison.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Pretty colours.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Look but don’t eat! We thought these were blackberries.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Not ours unfortunately.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Slight detour to play in the creek. The water is cool and clear.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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You have to look carefully to find the trail markers!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Dragon downspout!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We weren’t sure why the corn was drying on the exterior of this house. Any ideas?<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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It’s a circular trail, so we’re heading back to Mogrovejo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Through a tiny village,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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through some woods,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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following a creek.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We also passed by this joyful scarecrow.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Redo is another tiny village on the way back to Mogrovejo.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The trail markers were hard to find, so we were happy to see this sign. This was the last stretch back to the parking lot. <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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10.3 km<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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Traslated as “below the peaks”, this circular hike had truly amazing views of the mountains. It starts in the tiny village of Mogrovejo, which had 44 inhabitants in 2008. It doesn’t look as if it’s grown much since then. The recommendation was to start the hike early in the morning and we were very glad […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6241,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,49,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6197","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hikes","category-internationaltravel","category-spain"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/IMG_1087-scaled.jpg?fit=2560%2C1920&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6197"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6268,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6197\/revisions\/6268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/agaaga.khoolbrew.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}