Dec 21st, 2007
First Snow on Teide
Twelve thousand feet high Mount Teide had its first serious covering of snow this week. We all woke up on Wednesday morning to gorgeous views of Teide and the surrounding mountains covered in snow.
Here you can see Teide (on the left) as seen from Club Olympus at Garden City on Wednesday the 19th of December. Please note the resort is in glorious sunshine! Temperatures on the south coast of Tenerife still were in the 70’s.
Our timeshare owners and guests all had a day of sunbathing in fabulous sunshine.
The snow on Mount Teide is one of the major water sources in Tenerife. As the snow melts slowly, the water is absorbed through porous volcanic rock. This water finds its way into enourmous underground reservoirs or gallery’s. It is then distributed into the islands water network.