Normally we this would have been the first day of our 3-days high altitude program, but the refugio was full for tonight, so we postponed it till tomorrow. We start our day via the main road out Orgiva in the direction of Lanjaron, but there's a lot of traffic of runners, today a running event is held in Orgiva and our timing is so bad we're just stuck behind it, luckily it's not too long before we turn offroad in the direction of Canar. This piece of the ride is hot, very hot. We're in the middle of an old river, so there's no wind, lot's of sun and the ground which radiates the heat back. After a while we hit the road, and I'm happy we're on tarmac now, this road climbs easy towards Canar, where we can fill our camelbaks and bottles.
After our refill we ride through the streets of Canar in the direction of the GR7, a nice footpath which will lead us to the dam, here the pictures speak for themselves:
Unfortunaly I have a flat tire, at first I thought a snakebite due the speed it deflated; but after checking the tire I saw a slit of 2 cm a sharp stone has taken a bite of my tire and liked it.... During this reparation the rest could take a rest
,the footpath continues untill the dam 
The descent continues on this GR7 footpath in the direction of Soportujar, where we descent further in the direction of Orgiva on some wider tracks
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However before we are in Orgiva we take a the last small hill on our way, it's a nice singletrack ascent and descent. And the proof is there that the ascent is rideable to the top; Thierry showed us how to do it.
And as the day before this we end up on the main square of Orgiva for our apres-bike and tapas, and there is always something strange there: the pints of Thierry always seem to contain less then the rest of us...
Statistics:
21 km
900 hm
Total time: 4:37
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