CICERA DOBRA-PICO-BUSTRIGUADO Monte Dobra from the Pico del Castillo, Puente Viesgo.
The massif of accidental Dobra much of the town of Puente Viesgo, divided between several of their people. One is The Clips, whose territory reaches to the highest peak of the mountain, the Pico the capital (606 meters). The following suggests the ascent of Mount Dobra from this people, perhaps the most beautiful and certainly the most recommended for hikers.
We start from the loops, in particular from the junction next to the bar El Centro the edge of the road. We take the asphalt road that passes next to an old plane tree and crossing a brook puentuco on descending from the mountain. We went through the neighborhood
Riocarbos (Rucarbos) to come to a fork just before a new bridge. Now go right, climbing and following a straight track at a crossing, the neighborhood Ganceo, until a new crossing where we turn the left (you can also avoid Ganceo homes and their dogs, going right at the first intersection and facing in the second). In any case, the track ascends directly to the mountain, leaving the people definitely back. Somewhat later we will reach a new branch, in which the main track goes right, but we take the ramp on the left, which llanea to a lush valley.
This stretch is one of the most beautiful, with a variety of largely indigenous trees: chestnut, oak, ash, birch, holly, etc ... There are also some eucalyptus distinguished by their large size and numerous American oaks, forming a small forest of great beauty. After imposing the monotony of the eucalypts, which occupy most of the hillside with little interruption. Upon reaching a new branch climb to the right, ignoring deviations after two separate left and right side, and later reaching a trifurcation, we have to keep left, always between eucalyptus and gaining altitude, to complete the climb and flat for a while clearer terrain. Something
then refers to a track much more marked, rising from Vargas and gives access right to open a quarry in the upper Dobra few years ago. Now climb on this track, ignoring two separate deviations to the left (the second access to the quarry) and continuing for a secondary runway that goes up the west. This path starts about 450 meters and runs along the spine of the mountain, an area of \u200b\u200bpine trees to stand at the foot of rocky highlight the capital is the Pico or Pico Dobra (606). The latter increase can be convoluted, but it is not hard if you find the right path, which runs along the south side and only needs a little helping hand.
Another carved faces right at the bottom of the top in the side that faces Puente Viesgo
Erudine face of God, carved on the top of the capital
At the height of the capital is a cross and a trig point, the typical white marker placed by the National Geographic Institute. You can recognize two curious faces carved in the rocks of the summit, perhaps due to students in the School of Arts and Crafts of Torrelavega, in the early twentieth century frequented the Dobra under the leadership of Mayor Hermilio River. He was the one who discovered this place the famous altar dedicated to the god Cantabrian Erudine , one of the most important pieces de la epigrafía romana en Cantabria.
En la parte alta de la ruta podemos encontrar formaciones rocosas singulares, como esta en la que me encuentro subido en uno of my many trips to this peak, delighting with tremendous views, a unique vantage point where we can see the whole of Cantabria, All the circus south of Three Seas, to the right the great massif de Peña Sagra, of course to the Picos de Europa the west, north the immensity of the Cantabrian Sea to the beaches of Suances, the mouth of the River Pas, Liencres beaches, the town of Torrelavega, Santander and also the capital including the Palacio de la Magdalena on days with lighter Somo beaches and the E and SE Mount Candina, Lierganes peaks, Hornijo saw the Porracolina, the Mortillano and Valnera Castro thugs and the beautiful summit of the region Pas.
Another day out with my best mate mountain, my son, to see if little by little it takes passion and more often with me, here is waiting for his grandparents and Tito.
Mount Dobra, in addition to its landscape value, cultural value is undeniably part of it as the caves of Puente Viesgo, known worldwide for its cave paintings, and Castro of Lleras, Pico del Toro and Jarramaya also the "Cave of Sovilla" containing Paleolithic cave paintings and has the qualification of BIC (cultural interest). In eastern and central we find between caves torques and springs about 52 cavities. El Monte Dobra is like a big cheese of holes is not yet fully explored. If we inquire into the animal world we find a cave snail, acknowledged in a paper published in England in 1980, and a beetle (Iberotrechus bolivari) and a spider (Robertus cantabricus), which serve as bioindicators of system quality. In addition to its biological and cultural richness, this mountain has in its bowels the flow of water could supply the city of Santander. Its interior is full of traps for which the water flows without knowing its exact path and Pas although rivers are an important contribution Besaya water of Mt.
is a pity that in this mountain now operating ten quarries limestone extraction and two mining operations, destroying both the landscape and the resources that the forest contains, besides the undeniable cultural and historical value has this mountain from the Paleolithic.
Here we are in another ascent Dobra Sunday afternoon the whole family stayed for a short walk away leaving the car on the road leading up to the quarry from the Clips, immediately upstream of the in a small quarry site to the left, leave the car. From this point until the top you have a half hour, follow the gravel track, with pines to the right of way and newly planted eucalyptus trees to the left, not lost, it is appropriate to go for a walk with children, has no difficulty and the ride is comfortable and short.
The road up to the quarries in the foreground, Mount Carceña
and background behind the Rock Cabarga.
Behind the eucalyptus forest on the left is the Castle,
the small pyramid and the bottom with a little snow Valnera Castro.
Even as the last day of the year 2010 was good we made a quick exit to Mount Dobra, the capital climbed Pico Atabi with binoculars and enjoy a wonderful view, without a doubt one of the best viewpoints in Cantabria.