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Spain Mount Teide (Los Cristianos to High Point)
Mount Teide (Los Cristianos to High Point)
All the cycling data and info you'll need to climb Mount Teide (Los Cristianos to High Point)
This page maps the ride up Mount Teide to the Visitor Center and then on to the high paved point of Mount Teide and Tenerife.
Cycling Mount Teide from Las Cristianos, Spain
Ride 33.2 kilometers gaining 2,109 meters at 6.4% average grade.
This is one of the most popular routes to the top of the most popular destination in the Canary Islands: Mount Teide. This route ranks #73 in the world and ends at the Teide National Park Sign, but do continue past the sign to the Visitor Center and paved high point of the road and island - this is the most scenic part of the climb and takes you in view of Mount Teide and its unique volcanic formations.
Strava's leaderboard for all segments up the mountain proves to be a testament to the popularity of Tenerife and Mount Teide. The leaders include professional cyclists with familiar names: Froome, Porte, Pinot, and more.
This is the southwestern approach to the massive Mount Teide volcano. Mount Teide is a volcano on Tenerife in Spain's Canary Islands, and is the highest point in Spain and above sea level of all the Atlantic Islands. The highest point of Mount Teide is 3,718m (12,198'). The southern approaches to the summit have moderate traffic at the start due to the tourist towns they start in: Los Cristianos (southwest), and El Medano (southeast). Los Cristianos is a large city (population 21,235) which caters to tourists and has a ferry port. Much of the traffic we encounter along this long 52 kilometer climb is enroute to the same destination as we are, the National Park and Mount Teide.
SIX POPULAR ROUTES UP MOUNT TEIDE
PJAMM Google Map with six of the most popular routes up Mount Teide.
The routes in counterclockwise order beginning with Mount Teide in El Medano (Southeast):
El Medano: 38.3 kilometers gaining 2,289m at 5.7% average grade ending at the park sign on TF-21
Los Cristianos: 33.2 kilometers gaining 2,109m at 6.4% ending at the park sign on TF-21
Los Gigantes: 36.6 kilometers gaining 2,068m at 5.6% ending at highpoint on TF-38
Puerto de la Cruz: 47 kilometers gaining 2,429m at 5% ending at the highpoint on TF-21
Santa Cruz de Tenerife: 62.5 kilometers (longest climb in Europe) gaining 2,827m at 3.7% ending at TF-21 highpoint
Guimar: Ride 48.9 kilometers gaining 2,508m at 4.4% ending at the highpoint on TF-21
SEGMENT ONE
Los Cristianos to Vilaflor.
The first segment is a climb from the popular oceanfront tourist town of Los Cristianos to the lovely mountain town of Vilaflor. We enjoyed our stay at Hotel Spa Villalba in Vilaflor during our trip to Tenerife, and felt it was well located on the mountain for cycling the multiple routes up the flanks of Mount Teide.
We ride along TF-51 for much of this route.
There are signs on every approach to Mount Teide that identify the number of deaths on the road for the past five years. However, all the routes and climbs on the island, while many had moderate to heavy traffic (depending on the day and time of day) we always felt safe on our rides.
Arona is a good alternative to start if you do not wish to ride with traffic from Los Cristianos.
From Arona the ride is 25.3 kilometers, gaining 1,592 meters at 6.3% average grade to the Park Sign.
Turn left onto TF-21 at kilometer 20.8 as you reach Vilaflor.
Vilaflor to the National Park Sign:
Ride 12.3 kilometers gaining 842 meters at 6.9%.
This is the most scenic segment of the true climb (we do recommend continuing past the park sign to the Visitor Center and also the road's high point beyond that). We are in an alpine setting for the majority of this segment. All approaches to Mount Teide include a substantial amount of time in an alpine environment.
As with the entire route, this segment is consistently in the 6-8% range.
THE PARK SIGN
Along with photos with Mount Teide in the background, this is the top photo opp location on the mountain.
There are just two of the big metal National Park signs - on this route and the one up T-38 from the west.
El Retamar is the high point of this climb.
PARK SIGN TO VISITOR CENTER
Ride 15.8 kilometers from the sign to the Visitor Center.
This segment is the most scenic part of the 52 kilometer route to the paved high point of the mountain (Los Cristianos to High Point). There is an eight-kilometer descent averaging 2.3%, and descending 236 meters after the park sign, followed by 7.8 kilometer climb at 4.2% to the Visitor Center.
The views along the last seven kilometers of this segment are stunning.
It is nearly mandatory to ride from the park sign at least to the Visitor Center.
There are four primary access routes to the Visitor Center -
TF 21 (north and south) TF 38 (west) and TF 24 (north) and TF-525 (east).
VISITOR CENTER TO HIGH POINT
From the Visitor Center it is another six kilometers to Tenerife's highest paved point.
Sign at the high point.
This is also Montaña Blanca and the trailhead for the hike of 8.3 kilometers (5.16 miles one way) gaining an incredible 1,188 meters (3,897') to Mount Teide Peak (you can see the hike on our interactive map from our PJAMM Adventure App). Note: To hike to Mount Teide summit you must have a permit (apply here). The Teide Cable Car parking lot is just past the finish of our climb - Google Map of Teide Cable Car. With a cable car ticket, one can hike to the top and ride the cable car down, but you'll have to hike 2.3 kilometers back to the trailhead if you don't have a ride at the bottom of the cable car.
Food, beverages, bathroom and extraordinary views from the VC.
The tram is accessed 3.4 kilometers at 4.6% past the Visitor Center. The tram will take you to near the top of Mount Teide. If you wish to hike to the highest point in Spain, get those tickets well in advance of your trip - we were told two months at the information booth in October 2022 (Official Website). Because of an unseasonal rainstorm the tram was not running during our trip.
Wintery conditions on Mount Teide in March.
The steepest five kilometers on this route begin just south of Vilaflor (highest village in Tenerife at 1,400 meters) at kilometer 23.7 (7.5%). We enter Teide National Park at kilometer 26, just north of Vilaflor. We are in an alpine setting for about 14 kilometers after leaving Vilaflor, before we rise above treeline for the remaining 14 kilometers at about kilometer 25.
Mount Teide - the highest point in Spain at 3,718 meters (12,198').
Ron Hawk's water bottle collapsed on his climb.
Bike Point - five locations on Tenerife.
Center Photo - Alberto Delgado (center) - Tenerife Cycling Tours - HIGHLY recommended!
Bike rentals on Tenerife can be obtained via: (a) Bike Point (five locations), and (b) Free Motion which has Specialized, Cannondale, and Pinarello rentals, and is endorsed by our cycling friend Bo Jensen, who has significant experience cycling the Canary Islands.
Paradores are Spanish government owned luxury hotels. The Parador on Tenerife is located at the Visitor Center and is the best location to stay, though it is pricey, for cycling the many routes up to Mount Teide. The professionals stay here because it also provides altitude acclimation (situated at 2,100 meters). The cost of Parador de Las Canadas del Teide was about twice the cost of our Vilaflor hotel (Villalba Hotel Spa; 85 versus 160 euros).


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The Criterion Corner
March 19, 2017 / Jericho Cerrona
Director: Ousmane Sembène
Running time: 1 hour
Welcome to THE CRITERION CORNER, a recurring segment in which a film in The Criterion Collection, known for standardizing the letterbox format for widescreen movies and extra bonus features, is highlighted. The picture up for discussion this time is Ousmane Sembène's 1966 anti-colonialist picture, Black Girl.
African filmmaker Ousmane Sembène's Black Girl is a harrowing examination of so-called "decolonization" during the late 1960s, but it's also anti-polemical in that a harsh reality is simply presented without the need for the filmmaker to trot out a victim narrative. All of the characters here; including the callous yet oblivious middle class French housewife and her hangdog husband, are byproducts of France/African imperialism which has given way to a certain perspective. Of course, this perspective is skewered by socioeconomic entitlement which blankets over another form of slavery and appropriation, but Sembène doesn't demonize the white characters. They are clueless and unsympathetic to be sure, but the film's real interest is in the gradual dehumanization of it's central black figure, Diouna (Mbissine Thérèse Diop), a maid who travels from Africa to France in search of a more glamorous life.
At 60 minutes, Black Girl would seem to skimp on a detailed narrative, but Sembène employs an elliptical style; with very little synchronous sound, Senegalese music cues, and voice over set against scenes where Diouna tediously cleans the house and cooks meals. This technique integrates the audience into this world, allowing us to feel the repetitiveness of Diouna's actions, as well as her growing disdain for the casual racism of her white employers, who treat her either like an indentured servant or a foreign object to be gawked at. In one particularly revealing scene, Diouna is kissed on the cheek by an elderly white man during a dinner party because of his uncomfortable fondness for her otherworldly appearance. Moments like these are disturbing because they illustrate a complete lack of self-awareness, and the polite nature of such bigotry is endemic of an entire system poisoned from the inside out. Tragically, despite Diouna's efforts to fight against this form of oppression, her spirit ultimately breaks under the burden of her "otherness."
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Q: IIS: Unable to make the session state request to the session state server I have an ASP.NET MVC application that is configured to run using Web Garden.
Session state mode is set to StateServer in web.config using below:
<system.web>
  <sessionState mode="StateServer" stateConnectionString="tcpip=127.0.0.1:42424" timeout="360" />
</system.web>

ASP.NET State service is running on the same machine (not remote one) so hence above ip is set to 127.0.0.1 on port 42424. It is configured as Automatic and it is always running.
And maximum worker processes for application pool is set to 4.
I often get a lot of warning messages in the event log regarding to the state server. Below the error (
Event ID 1310):
Event code: 3009
Event message: No se pudo realizar la solicitud al servidor de estado de la sesión. Detalles: última fase='Leyendo respuesta del servidor de estado', código de error=0x8007000E, tamaño de datos salientes=0
Event time: 05/11/2020 16:22:45
Event time (UTC): 05/11/2020 15:22:45
Event ID: 2e332c8f5171461e9a635a55ead92129
Event sequence: 24813
Event occurrence: 40
Event detail code: 50016

Application information:
    Application domain: /LM/W3SVC/2/ROOT-2-132490528848804756
    Trust level: Full
    Application Virtual Path: /
    Application Path: C:\inetpub\wwwroot\MyMvcApp\
    Machine name: MyServer

Process information:
    Process ID: 4816
    Process name: w3wp.exe
    Account name: MyDomain\MyAppPoolIdentityAccount

Exception information:
    Exception type: HttpException
    Exception message: No se puede realizar una solicitud de estado de sesión al servidor de estado de sesión. Compruebe que el servicio de estado ASP.NET se ha iniciado y que los puertos de cliente y servidor son los mismos. Si el servidor se encuentra en un equipo remoto, compruebe el valor de HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aspnet_state\Parameters\AllowRemoteConnection para asegurarse de que acepta más solicitudes. Si el servidor se encuentra en el equipo local y si el mencionado valor del registro no existe o está establecido en 0, la cadena de conexión del servidor de estado debe utilizar 'localhost' o '127.0.0.1' como nombre de servidor.

    TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH:
Unable to make the session state request to the session state server.
Please ensure that the ASP.NET State service is started and that the client and server ports are the same. If the server is on a remote machine, please ensure that it accepts remote requests by checking the value of HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aspnet_state\Parameters\AllowRemoteConnection.
If the server is on the local machine, and if the before mentioned registry value does not exist or is set to 0, then the state server connection string must use either 'localhost' or '127.0.0.1' as the server name.

Request information:
    Request URL: http://my.mvcapp.com/Wizard/MakeOrder
    Request path: /Wizard/MakeOrder
    User host address: 172.28.X.XX
    User: MyDomain\OneUser
    Is authenticated: True
    Authentication Type: Negotiate
    Thread account name: MyDomain\MyAppPoolIdentityAccount

Thread information:
    Thread ID: 67
    Thread account name: MyDomain\MyAppPoolIdentityAccount
    Is impersonating: False
    Stack trace:

Custom event details:

I have ensured that the ASP.NET State service is started and running and that the client and server ports are the correct ones, 127.0.0.1 and 42424 respectively. Also I have the registry key  HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\aspnet_state\Parameters\AllowRemoteConnection. This key exists and it is set to 0 since the ASP.NET State service is running on the same machine (no need to set it to 1).
So, I do not understand why it is saying to check state server..... Any ideas? I have spent a lot of days googling but I am not able to solve this.

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