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Wanderführer Tenerife english
 | 22.08.2011 |
Good afternoon,
I just come back from Tenerife where I spent 15 days walking all along the island with some friends.
We were equiped with the hike guide ROTHER about Tenerife (4th edition, fully revised in 2011), and once again I want to highlight the quality of Rother guides and the general accuracy of the explanations.
However, I would like to point out a concern we had regarding the course N°32 from Tamaino to Los Gigantes.
I don't know if your document is false or is not anymore up to date, but when we reached the entrance of the second tunnel which lead to the Los Gigantes cliff path, it was closed with a solid grill. There was a broken notice on the grill , but we understood that it was closed due to the risk of falling stones.
As you know, at this stage of the course we are already well engaged in the Baranco Seco, and it's really a pity that there is NO indication at the entrance of the 1st tunnel to inform walkers that the second one is closed.
In any case it worth to take this into acount for your next update of your guide about Tenerife.
Best regards
Fred Lançon
| 01.08.2011 |
Dear Sir/Madam,
the following email is just to warn you about some of the information provided in the walking guide by Klaus and Annette Wolfsperger in Tenerife (Rother walking guide, edition 2010). In particular, the information written in the walk number 32: from Tamaimo to Los Gigantes, mentions that is necessary to cross two tunnels. Please note that the second tunnel is presently closed by a fence, forcing the walker to return back to Tamaimo. This is like two hours unexpected walk. Update this is following editions to avoid such inconvenience,
Best regards,
Ignacio Trujillo
| 24.11.2003 |
SOME REMARKS ON THE TENERIFE GUIDE
General:
We used the english guide, some problems maybe were due to translation errors…
We are experienced medium-grade mountainwalkers, we enjoy the red walks and avoid the black ones.
We experience your guides as handy, compact, very informative and generally trustworthy.
Route 15, Montania Reventada
Textline 6: After a few minutes …past a rainmeter to the left: the path passes on the left side of the meter, so the meter is to the right. Translation problem??? (This was a simple walk, but in difficult terrain these mistakes could make us end up as skeletons…).
Suggestion: always use determinators to prevent confusion, for example:
Past a rainmeter to your right, or: pass left of a rainmeter.
On the way back from the montania it is nice to visit the little red top on your right hand, just after passing the Botija on your left. 5 min. each way.
Route 44, Guajara
We find it better to do the trip the other way around, as almost all hikers turned out to do: The somewhat degrade and steep slope underneath the top is prettier to go up than down. And the green markings do work better in this direction. Anyhow it seems good to mention these in the book! The combination with Paisaje Lunar works fine then, one does not need to make a return traject. (Start>Ucanca>Guajara>turnoff Lunar Landscape>Lunar Landscape)
Variation: we did a combination of 42, Caniadas Road with 44: 42 from the other end, Centro de Visitantes, to the turnoff towards Guajara, Guajara pass, Lunar Landscape. Long, but not difficult and very interesting.
Anyhow: Why do you list 42 as a red hike? It is all along a dirtroad, as easy as you can get them! If you did it because of the length, i´d say: keep length and grade seperated, it are different parameters. Length one can read easily from the title-text.
Route 46, Sombrero de Chasna
The route back branches off quickly, like the text says. The map however suggests a return to the rim of the crater. It should branch off at the first visible hightline on the map, just above the 4 of the 2411, and first stays on the east side of the barranco, to join where the path on your map crosses back to the west bank..
Route 29, Punta del Hidalgo, Chinamada, Las Carboneras
Textline 4: we soon pass a barrier: do we pass it, or pass through it? Correct: we first leave a barrier to our right hand, the at a fork we pass the chain barrier of the right hand path. After … we reach the floor of the Barranco Seco -not the B. del Rio-, and a little later the Barranco del Rio which we cross to the left over an elevated footbridge, then keep right on the solid camino. The ascent to the small cave is a mere ten minutes from there.
Route 39, Pico del Ingles to Santa Cruz
Alternative: At Catalanes we follow the road to the left, not to the right. To the right just brings us to the chapel, and to the woth-to-mention extremely simple bar, where with some luck one can have a local lunchmeal…
General route: After descending from Cabeza del Viento, before the second farmstead, there is a very distinct path sharply to the right, but here go straight-on, towards and under by the farm. (We first took the path to the right as it seemed the throuhgroad). The farmwife, who had seen our seeking, invited us to pass over her lot, so we missed lateron the sign of the alternative route, but we found it anyhow.
General remarks
[...] General warning: The Guagua is pretty independable when not travelling it from the starting point as it can depart very late or very early, we once waited 40 minutes in vain, concluding it might have departed more then 20 min. early… And information of local people is often incomplete or not to be trusted.
For that reason we avoided one-way walks or organised them via a taxi. (Villaflor-Portillo-centro dos visitantes: 30 euro, we lef tour rented car at the beginning of the sentero to Lunar Landscape. We easily got a ride from a tourist from teh LL-start back to the mainroad, saving us a long boring walk. The advise to do the accessraod to Lunar Landscape by car is a good one indeed!
We enjoyed your guide very much, and we hope that our remarks will help to make it even better.
Greetings,
Frits Visser and Ria van der Kolk,
Groningen, Holland
| 02.04.2003 |
I bought one of your Rother Walking Guides to Tenerife (1st Ed) translated into English by A. Adelung and C. Ade Team. I wish to point out an error in one of the walks.
Walk 5 (Organos Trail) p33, last sentence: it should read "We follow this to the LEFT (not right) for 10 minutes back............" This is an evident mistake and not a crucial one in terms of the walk.
Regards
Nick Halsted, London