www.comunidadbiker-mtb.com We started this adventure in a totally improvised way, with the intention of taking a walk through the lower part of Mount Teide. We left unprepared, with a backpack with a bag of peanuts and a few cookies and a couple of liters of water Patricia Carmona community and community Alonsojpd, hiking in Tenerife.
Little by little we are encouraged, leaving from Majua, near the cable car and walk about 4 kilometers to the junction of the road and the beginning to the ascent to Mount Teide. We are still animated by the good day that it does and we take the way of ascent to the Teide, by the White Mountain.
We continue climbing towards the path, seeing the eggs of Teide and admiring this characteristic volcanic landscape. We walk now along the sloping, winding and narrow path towards the refuge of Altavista, stopping for lunch / eating a few cookies and some peanuts.
After several hours walking and a long and hard climb we reached the Altavista refuge, hoping that they would sell water, as soon as we had left. In the refuge we see that there are vending machines but they only accept coins, so we can not get water.
Rationing the water we continued climbing towards the cable car, hoping that there would be water there. It took several hours to arrive and the wind starts to blow quite cold. In the cable car there is no water so we almost abandoned the hiking route by the improvised Teide. But we continue climbing and rising until we smell sulfur and reach the highest peak of Teide, the crater, the roof of Spain. We admire the impressive views that from this place there are, at more than 3,700 meters of altitude and we embark on the way down.
We barely managed to reach the refuge again, with more than 6 hours walking. Fortunately, we exchange bills for coins and we can draw water. We still had about three hours to get to the car and the descent was not as good as we expected.
Alonsojpd community is bitten by the chicken and has discomfort in the knees, which prevent him from going down the stairs well and there were many left. Little by little they go down until they reach the good road. But the adventure does not end here, the night is on them and they have to make a stretch of road completely dark, turning on the phone and the flashlight only when they see a car, because they were almost without a battery.
They arrive at the car with more than 9 hours walking, with a few peanuts and cookies, with more than 22km and 1,600 meters of accumulated altitude. A challenge achieved and improvised.
The next day, if it was not enough, they come to make another 6km through the enchanted forest, in Anaga.
More information about the hiking route (photos, videos, GPS track, chronicle) in: comunidadbiker-mtb.com/tocando... -and-descent-al-pico-del-teide-al-crater-from-montana-majua /