Castillo Mayor

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Distance: 6.88 mi
Elevation gain: 3,192 ft
Technical difficulty: Moderate
Elevation loss: 3,192 ft
Max elevation: 6,425 ft
TrailRank: 38
Min elevation: 3,721 ft
Trail type: Loop

Moving time: 2 hours 56 minutes
Time: 6 hours 2 minutes
Coordinates: 1647
Uploaded: August 18, 2022
Recorded: August 2022

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near Puértolas, Aragón (España)

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Itinerary description

A simple enough walk for the most part but when U get to the bowl with meadow in things get trickier. We cut straight up on visible trail toward summit but this is difficult, steep and over loose fractured limestone plates and you miss half the circuit. Instead turn left as you drop into meadow and head toward NW corner where grass slope turns to rock. Then follow summit ridge up and around to summit and down OPP side to form an elongated circle. There's no real discernable trail but no real alternative either. Be aware that anyone suffering from even mild vertigo will find the walk along or even just back from the bridge very difficult (one reason I didn't do full loop). Also do not attempt on a day with a risk of rain as rock slippery or wind. Even a mere moderate breeze at start of walk will possibly be gusting near glad force at top which can be very dangerous. This is a spectacular walk. The view down is actually beyond sheer in places and drops 800m it's a once in a lifetime walk but one not suitable for everyone.

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Park just outside village and walk downhill to left on road

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After about 80m turn onto stone pave track on right going up past abandoned terraces. It's signed and clear. Climb steadily up

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This old shepherd trail runs alongside an old dry stone wall through dry - and at times sharp - vegetation

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The goal

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After 20min a small clearing gives big views of our goal. A moment later enter for forest

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U enter mixed woodland not purely for forest. Trail very clear all way

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After 50min emerge out of woodland close to foot of limestone table. Aim for the lower dip which is obvious entry point to the lost world up high. Path remains very obvious

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After hr is a trail junction. Go left slightly downhill. There's a stone cairn

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Plants thin out to reward with superb view toward Ainsa and sestrales to west. It then reaches vertical rickface with no apparent path through but it bends about and finds an easy stone slope

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Heading back into mixed woodland now and still heading upward

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Coming out of woodland the oath climbs much harder over more open ground. This is where things might get hard on a hot day

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Hr 45 from start cross a ridge with large cairn to a grassy bowl behind which rises a desert of difficult karstaic rock leading to summit. Looking south are stupendous views across spain. Head directly across meadow in a nnw direction

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There's a small pool used by sheep and a trail junction with cairn. U can go either way but better to go young clockwise loop doing hard miles first so take the path that bends slightly left nnw

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We went a bit wrong. Should have gone left not straight on which is also a trail but goes direct and hard up

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