Como Pedrosa, Andorra, Country HP.
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 10.1 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,816 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 4,816 ft
- Max elevation
- 9,589 ft
- TrailRank
- 36
- Min elevation
- 5,091 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 8 hours 29 minutes
- Coordinates
- 7425
- Uploaded
- September 12, 2019
- Recorded
- September 2019
near Arinsal, La Massana (Andorra)
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Como Pedrosa 2,945m
This was a cracking day out in perfect weather, sunny, calm and with a sprinkling of early snow. I also had great company, David Gurnot and a superb mountain.
Started at the municipal car park at Arinsal and went straight up the standard route up to the refuge, further on up to both lakes and then around to the right (east) and up the steep shale bank (not to nice) to just below the summit.
Once on the summit the views were superb and we were able to linger for about 45 minutes before coming down the easier but steep ridge heading south until we rejoined the same path we came up on.
This is all simple enough but it is a hard day with 15kms and 1,300m of ascent. Guide book and gpx files on the route does say 1,400m but my Garmin said 1,300m? We did it in 8hrs 30mins. Well outside the guide book time but we loitered a lot due to the superb views, having cameras and the perfect weather!
Nothing technical and the paths are good apart from the aforementioned shale bank which was steep, around 60%. It wasn’t possible to zig zag much on this section either but at the same time it wasn’t too lose.
This was a cracking day out in perfect weather, sunny, calm and with a sprinkling of early snow. I also had great company, David Gurnot and a superb mountain.
Started at the municipal car park at Arinsal and went straight up the standard route up to the refuge, further on up to both lakes and then around to the right (east) and up the steep shale bank (not to nice) to just below the summit.
Once on the summit the views were superb and we were able to linger for about 45 minutes before coming down the easier but steep ridge heading south until we rejoined the same path we came up on.
This is all simple enough but it is a hard day with 15kms and 1,300m of ascent. Guide book and gpx files on the route does say 1,400m but my Garmin said 1,300m? We did it in 8hrs 30mins. Well outside the guide book time but we loitered a lot due to the superb views, having cameras and the perfect weather!
Nothing technical and the paths are good apart from the aforementioned shale bank which was steep, around 60%. It wasn’t possible to zig zag much on this section either but at the same time it wasn’t too lose.
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