Climb and climb and climb again. So much to say about this day. I left Pozo Alcon in grace on some good flat asphalt to hit the first climb, which was not as bad as I expected...smooth pavement makes a difference. A relieving decent through beautiful limestone walls was a lure to the next ascent up to where I took the GR247 trail. The trail is pretty much a hiking trail skirting the flank of the Sierra until it starts to widen a bit for a good gravel climb - hike-a-bike please. I am feeling tired. And from there it seems you just never reach the top, you think you do but you have not type of scenario. A section was identified as paved but let me tell you it is not, rocky a ton. Then the trail I picked to lead me to Cazorla was literaly a hiking path that I almost missed. I debated whether to keep riding the road or not, would have added many kms and likely more ascent back to Cazorla. So I bushwacked the forest steep slope to meet back with the hiking-vtt trail below, and that was a descent to Cazorla playing dodge the rocks and the gigantic pine cones. Ouch. At some point the trail widens and becomes paved but that's a steep one from there, you'll feel your hands until bed time. Motto of the day "let the ewe pass before you".