Catalonia has mountains and peaks that are picturesque from afar – from the motorway or the Tibidabo funicular, for example – but it has taken the citizens to transit, ascend or even climb them. And what can one expect from mixing with orographic accidents?
Even if they don’t say it out loud, I’m already assuming that the Generalitat Fire Department is busy with so many mountain rescues, that it doesn’t lend itself to show off, unlike rescues on the beach, which are more Eurovision. From 696 rescues in 2013 in Catalonia to 1,443 last year…
I’m not surprised, really. Climbing the mountain on unpaved paths is free, stretching your legs is healthy and you can always give it your all to conquer a peak and take a photo with or without a flag.
The problem is that people like me climb the mountain and one wonders who put the idea in their heads that climbing the mountain like goats is better than looking at it from one of those chalets with a fireplace, square double d ‘parking and Movistar in case Barça perpetrates.
Rescuing people who get lost, get scared when the night comes – when the bear Goiat goes hunting in the Pyrenees – or stumbles on a stone costs money in the treasury, but it’s not a question of making them pay for the invoice because it starts like this and then the friends of the barnacle would charge us double for hospital procedure. The poor have had enough punishment! Find out if they climbed it on their own initiative or spurred on by a divorced mountaineer! Or because of native media pressure, which insinuates that climbing the snowy mountains of Catalonia is a way to touch independence, even if it is a sentimental touch, which is what we are talking about for the rest of the decade.
The mountain is early in the morning, a paradoxical attraction if we consider that many hikers get up early to get to work, sometimes lazy, sometimes pushed by the obligation to feed their children. Devoting a day of celebration to stripping yourself of the cold, eating energy bars and putting cream on your face has its own mystery. Tibidabo amusement park is so beautiful!
