[Leica] Nathan's PAD 17/2/2019: a ride to Carrasqueta

[Jayanand Govindaraj]

Nice view - provided you make it to the top! Going back must have been a
breeze, though!

Cheers
Jayanand

On Tue, Feb 19, 2019 at 11:40 AM Nathan Wajsman <photo at frozenlight.eu>
wrote:

> One of my favourite cycling routes is up to the town of Jijona and then on
> to the Carrasqueta mountain pass. The distance is 35 km and the ride takes
> me from sea level to 1020 meters altitude. It is also a very pretty road,
> and of course, once the climb is done, it is all downhill :-)
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> I did this ride again on Sunday, and since my little Ricoh GRII has been
> sent to a repair shop in Valencia for sensor cleaning, I took my 10-years
> old Panasonic GF1 with the 14-42mm kit lens. It worked quite well as a
> cycling camera and gave me some more flexibility in terms of focal lengths.
> The image quality is not as good as that of the Ricoh, but for daytime
> photography it is good enough (the difference is mainly visible at high
> ISO).
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> Four images from the ride.
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> The beginning of the more serious part of the climb. At this stage, I have
> climbed to about 500 meters and cycled 25 km. Now what is left is the last
> 10 km and 500 meter to get to the pass:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-5Szf96S/A
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> I had to pee, so I stopped at a place with pretty almond flowers. They are
> everywhere right now:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-VpqfsK8/A
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> About 6.5 km from the pass there is a roadside bar with a large gravel
> parking lot with homemade tables and benches that is very popular among the
> many motorcyclists who enjoy the twisty mountain roads on weekends:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-gfkbKd7/A
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> And finally, the view from the top:
> https://www.greatpix.eu/All/Picture-A-Day/i-Bf3p7qH/A
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> Cheers,
> Nathan
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> Nathan Wajsman
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> Alicante, Spain
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