We had a plan today and that plan was to reach the antenna on the mountain we could see in the distance. We checked with David, looked at some maps and seemed doable, about 1600 meters of climbing on tarmac. David has been there before a few years ago and the only thing he remembered he wouldn't go back again, but in the end he went along to find out why. This is our target: 
We leave Orgiva and head for the direction of Alcazar, the climb is on the road and it's hot, no wind and no shadow: in Belgium I would love that, but now I would love to feel some wind or have a little shadow, I solve this by turning around and descend a little bit to keep Thierry company.
The road climbs gradualy and is very quiet with nice surroundings until we reach the top of the pass, no descending yet for us, we turn to the road going up to the antenna, the road gets graduallly steeper but all manageable. 
We climb and climb, this piece seems to go on forever but finally everbody reaches the top, we have to wait on Thierry for a while, most of us already have eaten our lunch. Thierry tries to eat too, but his body decides that everything should go the otherway around and his breakfast departs with his body (this was the best description I could give ;-)
After this Thierry feels a lot better and we go searching for some tracks, and indeed we really need to search for the tracks. The maps says there is and indeed sometimes there is something that looks like a track...
We reach a little forest, this is the most difficult part, the underground is rideable but the branches of the trees make it difficult to get through and most of this wood we have to walk, until we can finally ride and we find a jeep track. In our slang we call this 'berenjagen' or 'berenjacht' which translates directly as bear hunting...
This jeep track gives us speed, but the track is rough with a lot of sharp stones and this makes our first victim: a flat tire for Thierry, while waiting we enjoy the scenery:
After regrouping however I have a snakebite again, only problem is that I was at the back and Steven didn't have a pump with him, I didn't have a pump, I only had a spare tire and the rest was gone. The only solution was that Steven rode to them and fetch a pump. In the meantime I walked down so that Steven didn't had to climb all the way and indeed about in the middle we met again. Repairing the tire didn't take long and we were on our way again, I got the 'advice' to take it easy which I also did. I didn't flat anymore, but Nicky did in the last part. In the end everybody made it down, no we only had to climb to Orgiva again and for some of us this was harder then expected... But in the end the beer and tapas made up for it.
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