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Volcán Maderas

hike | 2023-01-09
1394 m altitude, 1354 m prominence, 15.01 km isolation

The ferry leaves in the afternoon, so we get up early and make our way to the Volcano Maderas trailhead. The road is asphalted and not bad, but the biggest danger is the “sleeping policemen” who are hard to see. But that’s what they were invented for, to drive slowly. I can say that they do a good job.

Volcán Concepción in the background

We leave the car in the car park, pay the parking fee of a few dollars and walk along the wide dirt road towards the foot of the mountain. We walk through cultivated fields accompanied by white-throated magpies.

Gradual trail at the beginning
Owl butterfly (Caligo martia)
Dry leaves
Orange peel fungus (Aleuria aurantia)

The steep path leads through the jungle, but it is not difficult. It gets a bit worse near the top when you have to cross the slope. Lots of mud and leaning trees. I missed one and scratched my head. There is a lot of blood, but I survive. Later, a bloody face sticking out of the bushes frightens a group of German tourists and I have to calm them down.

Shrubby path
From time to time I have to crawl on all fours

As is so often the case, the tourist viewpoint is several hundred metres from the actual summit. This time it is another 20 minutes along a difficult jungle trail. The summit itself is so inconspicuous that it is easy to walk past it, not realising until later that the trail is already descending. I bookmarked the highest point on my phone and hurried down to catch the ferry.

Red roots
Big trees
I don’t have a clue what it is ??
Girlfriend kiss (Palicourea elata)
Notopleura uliginosa
Besleria notabilis
Volcán Concepción barely clouds over today
Ensenada Santa Cruz
Looking back after the descent
Lower trail
Agricultural fields
White-throated magpie-jay (Calocitta formosa)

We descend quickly, with enough time for a shower and a local pizza. On the way back we have a ferry reservation, and it’s a good thing too, because at least ten of the staff ask us if we have one. We reach the mainland after dark and head for Managua, where we pick up our car in the morning and take a shuttle to Liberia in Costa Rica, where we’ll try to climb Volcán Miravalles the next day. Short detour to Volcán Masaya

Volcán Concepción from the small airport airstrip

Volcán Maderas 1394 m altitude
1354 m prominence
15.01 km isolation
Ranges Central America Ranges - Central Central America
Countries/regions Nicaragua – Rivas
Distance 7.80 km up 7.80 km down
Elevation 1232 m gain 1232 m loss
Time
3h40 up
0h05 other
2h40 down
6h25 total
Trailhead 161 m altitude 11.4830830, -85.5368880
Difficulties

Last section of trail is overgrown with jungle

Links GPX trail
  • Central America 2023
  • « Volcán Concepción
  • Volcán Masaya »

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TRIPS

2023
West Africa II 2023
Iberian Peninsula 2023
West Africa 2023
Central America 2023
2022
Andes 2022
Northwest Europe 2022
Malay Archipelago III 2022
Malay Archipelago II 2022
Anatolia Mountains 2022
Iberian Peninsula 2022
Atlas Mountains 2022
North France-West Rhine Area 2022

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843 km walked, 65 330 m climbed

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