[Closed] Joyriders Spain - GPX files

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Double bump for the evening as this is a longshot

All from memory I'm afraid but hopefully you should be able to put this onto google maps......

The main gorge (Rio Bailon) finished out in the village of Zuheros. Megasorearse links from the CV-247 where it runs E-W across the Arroyo de Fuenfria. Follow the track north as it curves away from the A de F and then NE until you join the top of Rio Bailon.

Penguin and catwoman start from the CV-247 at the cueva de la murcielagos (go down the steps). Penguin goes left at the bottom of the first slope after the steps and follows some old terraces back to Zuheros. Catwoman goes straigt ahead over a fallen down wall and joins the CV-131 into Luque.

Another link in to the main gorge leaves the CV-247 at a 90deg RH bend as you are going uphill immediately before a LH hairpin.

Angry shepherd climb goes from the LH farm building heading north up Rio Bailon. Follow the concrete covered pipe up the hill and head for the fence north through the bouldery grassland when the pipe swings west. Cross over the fence and follow the track to the right (~E). Head east until you cross a trail heading NE (at a gridded olive grove on google maps). This joins up with the last switchback on the gorge (Grande Cojones I think?)

The monastery thing you can ride from is called the Ermita Virgen de la Sierra.

Other stuff is a bit more sketchy and I can't remember where barry white is I'm afraid.

If you are desperate I could probably draw some of this on a map and you could plot your own gps route to upload.

EDIT: Having had a quick look on Strava (shudder) much of what I have mentioned is on there.

Takes me back...all I remember is going up a mountain and coming down it, with beers at the end.

Excellent stuff and thanks for the effort Shackleton, will have a look on google 🙂

Was 5 years ago for us, but i know gamins existed back then......

Bringing back some smashing memories there Shackleton.

IIRC Barry White was at the top of the gorgeous George (gorge) down to Zuheros.

I recall going down the steps as Shackleton says at the top of the road climb, then down Catwoman (or was it Scarecrow) to Luque, then turning back along the 'milk road' to climb back up and ended up on Stegosaurus?.

God knows how we got to that big massive high open plain, it was bloody lovely up there.

I could quite happily climb that road climb and descend the gorge ad nauseum, followed by a beer up in Zuheros square. Happy days.

Although the wee place down at Dona Mencia that did the Morcilla and Chorizo tapas was bloody awesome too!.

Really looking forward to it Greg.

Been looking at Google maps in terrain view and all the stuff round Zuheros seem quite easy to map out and I recognise them, can't seem to find the Barry White trail though.

Córdoba is a different story no idea.

We'll be riding with Pete and Mark most of the times anyway but if we wanted a shorter route or different I fancied the GPX files too.

I'm used to using bike and hike for creating GPX files in the UK - how do I make GPX files using Google maps/earth? Is it easy to do then upload to garmin connect?

I use bikehike.co.uk. you don't get the OS option for overseas but it still seems to let you download a gpx track.

If you are riding with mark and pete surely they have some gpx files they could give you (or at least show you on a map)?

Nope it's all in Marks head no GPX, prob just trying to be over prepared, as I don't want to take my laptop with me, so won't be able to upload to the garmin while I'm out there.

Barry White is the route in from the next valley south, having crossed a very rocky, small high plain to the west of the vulture crag.. Once down BW, you join up with the west bound link from the Luque milk Road towards the high goat farm above Stegosaurus & thereby the rest of the Zuheros/Bailon gorge.

The 'big' high and dry plain is just east of the Virgin's chapel mentioned above (satellite view helps here). I think angry shepherd referred above might be the dual routes from the northernmost farm on that plain; following the goat trail and concrete pipe north leads to a T junction, left takes you down towards the old railway station café, R takes you along the hill (Grande Cojones), to a ledge trail and eventually back to Zuheros again.

Yes, happy days for me too; I was lucky enough to help explore those trails in the early days and often got handed a paintbrush when the cortijo was being renovated.

As for Cordoba... Well, it would take far too long to try to describe the escapes from the city and numerous red, dusty trails back again. Just go, get a map, explore. Some of it will be familiar!

Just been on the map shop to work out which 1:50,000 maps I need for Córdoba and Zuheros, Spain is big place and not quite as easy as UK OS maps

Edit for above: Barry White is just to the NW of Zagrilla Alta, up a dirt road that shrinks as you turn off and get higher.

You can also go east from the virgin's chapel, across the plain and join up with Stegosaurus that way.

If you only have one vehicle, this will work by parking in the shade just below Zuheros by the bottom of the gorge trail. Go N and very shortly find the wee link trail to the old railway line, then W along this 'green road' past Donna Mencia all the way around to the end at Cabra, where you easily link up with the dirt track that climbs the Arroyo de Gongora to the col just below the last section of the tarred road up to the chapel. Down slightly, turn L onto the dirt road and head out across the plain; E for Steg, NE for the others.

Rik, to be fair, I think that google satellite view are as useful as the Spanish maps. certainly, going from Zagrilla to the start of BW, the 'OS' maps have the dirt roads and tracks marked in the wrong places. Best just follow your nose up and over!

How far up the milk road do you turn off for Stegosaurus?

Presume the milk road is the non-paved road from Luque that is listed on Google maps as Pases de Las Delicias?

The Milk Road is the white dirt road Sw then S away from Luque, you can't mistake it for anything else. It's quite a few KM up this to the relevant bits. There is a lesser used short cut R turn a few Km up this dirt road but as it's quite steep, probably better to just keep on going along the main track to the much more obvious junction R just below the first properly remote goat farm; it's when the road turns in towards the hills, into a small valley. However, you still have a way to go to get to Steg: continue past farm #1 heading N, up a steep climb then onto flatter ground above; keep going 'ahead' past various junctions. One to the right goes off along the ridge towards the Bat Caves; Barry White comes in from the left, dropping steeply from higher ground. Keep going W on a track that crosses 2 valleys which drain towards the Baillon Gorge, passing one small farm on the R, then arriving at a second set of run down buildings on the immediate RHS of the trail. Keep going into the next little valley, where sometimes the big pigs are found. By the low point, bear R to follow this next water course (on your LHS) and the trail become obviously more interesting. This is Steg, leading back into the woods at the very top of the main gorge. If you find yourself obviously headed for the Virgin's Chapel on its distant hilltop, you've gone too far.
Hope that makes some sense. It's been a few years... I could do it on the ground easily, just describing it in a meaningful way isn't so straightforward!

Cheers man - looking at it now