Photos, videos and docs of Andy Rodker, with the keywords: "Valdemanco"

Mountain stream over granite. After the rain.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 22 Apr 2023 23:45:42 +0000

La Sierra de La Cabrera. My usual walking route goes up this arroyo and just occasionaly, after rain, it bursts into life!
Something held me back from posting this for 11 years and I can't imagine now what it could've been!

Valdemanco beehives

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 20:58:24 +0000

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These beehives were stolen too often and so the villagers move them to a different location every few years. Here it is not on any path and when I chatted with the bar owner later he was a bit put out that I had found them! (The next time I came this way, maybe a couple of months later, they had been moved once more!).

Babbling brook

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 17 Dec 2021 20:18:48 +0000

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H. A. N. W. E. everyone!
Mountain stream over granite in the Sierra de La Cabrera. Best on large.

The path down to Valdemanco

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 17 Apr 2021 22:19:35 +0000

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From the slopes of Mondalindo, overlooking the village of Valdemanco, to the slopes of the Sierra de La Cabrera. It hadn't rained for almost a year and the country was as parched as it looks here!

Valley of Bustarviejo from the Sierra de La Cabrera.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 27 Mar 2021 22:30:56 +0000

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Valdemanco is the nearer valley village (where I normally start and finish my walks in the Sierra) and the village of Bustarviejo is at the head of the valley.

Wild lavender, babble and dapple

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 22:52:13 +0000

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Iberian lavender (or cantueso) and mountain stream babbling over granite and dappling in the late spring sun a few years ago.

HFF everyone!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Thu, 11 Feb 2021 22:12:55 +0000

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The parish church (Iglesia Nuestra Señora del Carmen), Valdemanco, Madrid Province. The brooding hulk of Mondalindo lies behind. Better on full screen.

La Sierra de La Cabrera,

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Tue, 11 Aug 2020 22:10:22 +0000

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A mountain stream over granite.

Granite country

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Mon, 27 Jul 2020 20:52:28 +0000

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La Sierra de La Cabrera - typical granite scenery in these mountains. Possibly better on full screen.

Wild lavender and cistus.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Wed, 08 Jan 2020 23:19:32 +0000

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Sierra de La Cabrera in Spring.

Valdemanco and the Bustarviejo Valley

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 30 Nov 2019 23:31:29 +0000

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Some new housing estates seen here - unfinished due to the construction industry crisis in the years after 2008.

Mountain stream over granite

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 23 Nov 2019 23:26:17 +0000

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Sierra de La Cabrera

H. A. N. W. E. everybody

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 22 Nov 2019 22:44:44 +0000

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Bustarviejo Valley and Mondalindo from La Sierra de La Cabrera.
A late winter scene.

Wild lavender and mountain stream

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Thu, 21 Nov 2019 23:20:44 +0000

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Lavender again and no apologies!
(Although I have just seen that I posted this only a week ago, DOH!!)

Mountain stream. H. A. N. W. E. Everyone!

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Fri, 15 Nov 2019 21:45:33 +0000

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This should have been in full spate, it being spring but drought at the wrong time of year and this dried to a trickle the following week.
Sierra de La Cabrera granite and cistus. Valdemanco, Madrid Province

Wild lavender and mountain stream

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Tue, 12 Nov 2019 23:18:12 +0000

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Sierra de La Cabrera, for Marie-Claire.

Beehives, Valdemanco

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sun, 10 Nov 2019 22:27:29 +0000

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Sierra de La Cabrera and Mondalindo as a backdrop.
The villagers move the hives every few years to deter honey thieves (and I mean the human kind, not bears!). I keep coming across them in ever-more inaccessible places!

Bustarviejo Valley from the Torres de Cancho Largo.

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Sat, 02 Nov 2019 23:22:17 +0000

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Early autumn can be a good time to walk in these mountains. Cooler than Madrid on the plain below and often a pleasing breeze. (but even so, care is needed as temperatures can still reach 35ºc or more - approx 90ºF). I take 3 litres of water with me for a long walk here, right up to late November when I cut back to 2 litres. The weight of 3 litres of water on a morning upward slog - before you have drunk much of the water therefore you feel the weight more than later - tempts some folk to ignore this. They always regret it later in the day with the sun at its highest!!

Wild lavender and mountain stream

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:48:06 +0000

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Typical Sierra de La Cabrera country in late Spring.

Mountain stream over granite

nobody@ipernity.com (Andy Rodker) — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 21:54:14 +0000

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You can drink this and I do. I re-fill my water bottles here. but not in summer and autumn because it is dry.
Sierra de La Cabrera, Madrid. Please view on large and black.
Sight and sound.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=COiIC3A0ROM A favourite soul artist.