GR10 - Stage 9 Arcos de las Salinas - Camarena de la Sierra
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 15.02 mi
- Elevation gain
- 3,222 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 2,503 ft
- Max elevation
- 6,457 ft
- TrailRank
- 59
- Min elevation
- 3,489 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- 5 hours 51 minutes
- Time
- 8 hours 2 minutes
- Coordinates
- 4284
- Uploaded
- April 2, 2018
- Recorded
- April 2018
near Arcos de las Salinas, Aragón (España)
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Itinerary description
2/4/18
We suggested to take the family along on our previous stage (8); think twice about asking them now.
The stage is only 2 km longer than the day before but involves so much more climbing and descending that we qualified this one as heavy. Getting up from Arcos is quite tedious, walking along a very broad pista. Make sure you fill your water bottles at one of the two Fuentes along this pista. And once you can leave that one, it gets really steap. Wooden planks needed to keep the path-pebbles at their place.
But once done with all the close climbing you get into a marvelous landscape. Gently ondulating mountains at 1800+ mtrs with, of course stunning views and after six or seven bends you’ll finally get the a Javalambre in sight. Some easy km’s ahead (in a wonderful landscape), just before the peak, the path bends to the right leaving us on stony paths again. There the descent begins. Offering great views on the Teruel plains and lots of mountain ranges. But steep too. Passing along ski slopes (we passed just one day after they closed down) and steeper down through the woods. Finally the landscape is opening up, getting rural and alongside a river you’ll enter Camarena. We were lucky to have booked at hotel Esmeralda; being the first building of the village it saved us half a km. Nice owner too.
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We are walking the GR10 across Spain from Puçol (near Valencia) all the way to the Spanish/Portuguese border. We started March 21th 2018 and hope to finish at the end of June.
We suggested to take the family along on our previous stage (8); think twice about asking them now.
The stage is only 2 km longer than the day before but involves so much more climbing and descending that we qualified this one as heavy. Getting up from Arcos is quite tedious, walking along a very broad pista. Make sure you fill your water bottles at one of the two Fuentes along this pista. And once you can leave that one, it gets really steap. Wooden planks needed to keep the path-pebbles at their place.
But once done with all the close climbing you get into a marvelous landscape. Gently ondulating mountains at 1800+ mtrs with, of course stunning views and after six or seven bends you’ll finally get the a Javalambre in sight. Some easy km’s ahead (in a wonderful landscape), just before the peak, the path bends to the right leaving us on stony paths again. There the descent begins. Offering great views on the Teruel plains and lots of mountain ranges. But steep too. Passing along ski slopes (we passed just one day after they closed down) and steeper down through the woods. Finally the landscape is opening up, getting rural and alongside a river you’ll enter Camarena. We were lucky to have booked at hotel Esmeralda; being the first building of the village it saved us half a km. Nice owner too.
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We are walking the GR10 across Spain from Puçol (near Valencia) all the way to the Spanish/Portuguese border. We started March 21th 2018 and hope to finish at the end of June.
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