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Wanderführer Gran Canaria, engl.
 | 08.03.2010 |
Hi,
I found the route directions in this guide much more helpful than the other Rother guide I have used-"Pyrenees 3" written by Roger Budeler. Dr Gawin has the good sense to use compass bearings, but I still can't understand why both writers are so "economical" in their inclusion of distances and heights.
Legend
Unless I've missed it in the guide, I haven't found any definition on what Dr Gawin means by a "track". By experience of using the guide in the field, I realised she is talking about what we in the UK would call a "landrover track"-in other words a wide dirt track built to accommodate 4x4 vehicles.Why not include definitions of "path" and "track" to save confusion? I don't know the nationality of your translator, Gill Round,but if she is British,she will know that her UK audience recognise path or footpath as a legal right of way, not a physical description of the ground in front of the walker.Many landrover tracks in the UK are classified as footpaths.
"Difference in Height" reads rather oddly in English.
Does Dr Gawin mean the difference in height between the starting point and the highest point ascended? If so, why not simply include the heights of significant summits in the text (spot heights).The reader can work out the difference. Or does she mean the total height gained by the walker? This would be useful information in addition to the spot heights.
Amendments:
Walk 26
On page 104, Dr Gawin describes how to negotiate the Los Bucios group of houses and the attendant dogs. However, there is a waymarked path that bypasses the houses -and the dreaded dogs- and leads you up to the track on the south side of Caldera de los Marteles (Is this the Degollada del Bienio-it's marked on the map, but not mentioned in the text?), so rejoins her trail. I appreciate that the sign and the white painted rocks were probably the work of the owner of Los Bucios to get walkers off his land, but it does avoid the baying hounds!
Walk 27
I think the description of how to get from the Caldera de los Marteles to Curva del Agua (page 107) is a tad vague and needs rewriting. There are white painted white rocks marking the track on the south side of the caldera and a whole line of them can be seen going up the hillside on the south west of the caldera. I presume these marks are the handiwork of the owner of the Los Bucios property, but walkers might well think that the rocks mark their route for Dr Gawin's walk. Walkers will find themselves struggling through crags. We walked this route in both directions last week and never saw any footprints; it could be that walkers are put off by the possibility of having to scramble over fierce looking crags to the so-called mountain peak. I think you need to warn walkers to ignore the painted rocks and stick to the spine of the ridge. (Dr Gawin refers to the ridge as a "mountain peak" which is confusing, because it implies that the walker has to ascend (x metres?) and descend from a peak to join the Cueva del Agua track.You don't.)
I suggest she uses text something along these lines:
"From the southside of the caldera ( Degollada del Bienio?) your path climbs the south west and west side of the caldera, then joins a track that leads north west to the Curva del Agua with a height gain of X metres. Initially follow a track on the top of the ridge that forms the south side of the caldera.The track soon disappears, but keep walking up the spine of the ridge walking over a smooth surface through open woodland. About 50 metres before you join the crags that crown the ridge, a line of white painted rocks cross your path. If you do not wish to scramble over the crags, follow the painted rocks to the left (south west) down the side of the ridge into the woods. When you are off the ridge,turn right and follow the line of the ridge on your right and join a track that comes in from your left. You will note caves on your right on the side of the ridge.Continue on up this track north west as it leaves the wood and enters open land. Soon you will see a radome and aerials on the horizon which is just above your next objective, Curva del Agua.
If you feel confident on rocks, you can reach the track mentioned above as it leaves the wood by scrambling over a series of crags that make up the spine of the ridge.There is no path"
Regards, Andrew Taylor