Posted by: Lara in Untagged on
Apr 27, 2009
‘It won't be any worse than Crib Goch. Same kind of exposure and a bit longer, but you'll have no trouble at all' so said Alun, prior to the AT trip to Mallorca. I wasn't convinced.....
The plan was an assault on the Serra de Cavall Bernat, a 2km ridge just outside of Puerto Pollensa in the North of Mallorca, that island Mecca for British sun worshippers and party animals. Everyone I had spoken to had said the area was stunning and the ridge a classic. The terms used to describe it had been loose and encouraging, but non-committal on the subject of exposure.
A perfect Mediterranean day greeted us as we started the walk up through the Boca Valley to approach the ridge. Fears that the owners of the Boca Valley land may have closed access (as is quite common in Mallorca, where there are no official public access rights to land) were unfounded and, surrounded by wind-sculpted rock and wild herbs and with stunning blue skies above, all seemed to be going quite well, for the time being. Alun's comments to the effect that the ridge looked very wussy compared with the guide description also served to allay my fears quite nicely. Hey, I was an outdoorsy, lemme-at-em kind of girl, nothing was going to stop me now....
