As good as it gets


The joys of teaching...

Easter 2010


Sunset at Sierra Nevada


Hiking on the Snow


Playa de Monsul


Playa de Genoveses


Twilight at Genoveses

Summer has arrived - First swim of the year

It's not even April and the water was pretty cold. But after a whole day hiking in the dessert when I arrived to Genoveses beach I could not resist it. Getting into the water under the full moon was the best part of a very nice day.


Twilight at Genoveses beach

Mountain survival course


My team mates


Building a snow cave


What to do after an avalanche

Mountain survival - Sleeping in a igloo


Our
igloo


Our neighbour


Inside the igloo


The rest of the camp


The igloo camp


The surroundings

Recordando a Gerardo - La hoya de la mora


Sierra Nevada


Llegando al refugio


Un bosque nevado


Subiendo al observatorio

Gerardo Alonso In memoriam, montañero y profesor 1952-2010

Gerardo Alonso, gran montañero e insigne profesor de la Universidad de Granada, ha fallecido en el lugar donde transcurrió la mayor parte de su vida, Sierra Nevada.

La vida me cruzó con él hace apenas un año y en el momento que lo conocí me di cuenta de que era una de esas personalidades excepcionales que la Universidad tiene la suerte de albergar y que, en el fondo, le dan sentido.

En este año me he introducido de su mano en el mundo de la montaña. Siendo una persona que ha pasado toda su vida en Sierra Nevada la veía como era en realidad. De una manera muy alejada de visiones "románticas", como él las llamaba.

Se dice que la vida es la gente con la que te cruzas. En mi vida, a pesar del escaso tiempo que lo conocí, Gerardo ha dejado una huella indeleble.

Adios Gerardo




Gerardo, dando una de sus clases fuera de pista con el veleta al fondo

Scialpinismo - Pico del Gallo


El pico del gallo


Views from the summit - Mulhacen and Alcazaba


The snow field surrounding the peak
Skiing it was an amazing experience

Scialpinismo - Barranco de San Juan


El barranco de San Juan


The team

Nominated for the Oscars!!!

Well, not me but a startup from my Computer Science School received an Oscar nomination. They made an animated short film and they got to go to LA.

It's something cool for a small school in a small country :-)
More info at: http://www.theladyandthereaper.com/

Wanna see the film?
http://212.227.136.88/press/

First contact with alpinism - El barranco del Postero


Beginning the climbing


The team


The land of snow and ice


Walking the slope up


In other world

First contact with alpinism - Sierra Nevada


The team


Lanjaron Valley


Mount Elorrieta

Back to the mountains - Puente de la Constitución


Snowshoeing through the valley


Mount Elorrieta


Parque nacional de Sierra Nevada... and my shadow

Fiestas de San Andrés - Dólar


Antiguamente las corridas se hacian en la plaza del pueblo
La primera corrida de toros en Dólar se celebró en 1764



Encierro de los toros



Recorrido del Encierro


La corrida


Πάντα ῥεῖ καὶ οὐδὲν μένει

Human nature: Revolutions

Meanwhile the moderate part of the citizens perished between the two,
either for not joining in the quarrel,
or because envy would not suffer them to escape.

On the Corcyraean Revolution. The History of the Peloponnesian War. Thucydides

Prague - Chasing winter


Prague


Prague - Bohnice


Entropa - Europe according David Cerny


Prague Law School


Jára Cimrman - Greatest Czech and founder of externalism

Errant in the enchanted forest

Wandering through an enchanted forest
I came across the unexpected and the long time forgotten
Fulfilled I returned home

SPC meeting - Alvaro's wedding


Aren't they cute?


Old friends meeting