It's summer, it's still Pandemic and I'm not on holiday because I teach English on Zoom, from my house.
The weather has been hot, and because Jaca is a great base, we've been able to do lots of excursions. The other day we did a tough one: La Raca in Astún. We didn't get to the top, but we weren't far off.
This was just a rest: we walked all the way!
There's a ski jump; I'd seen it from afar before but never so close! Jumpers must be quite mad! It gives me vertigo just looking at it!
It was foggy in Astún when we started and a lot of the way. But higher up the distinctive peak of the Midi d'Ossau rose above the fog.La Raca isn't like Candanchú for flowers, but I did find this lovely one though. It's yellow mountain saxifrage: saxifraga aizoides L
