Teide via Pico Viejo
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 12.74 mi
- Elevation gain
- 6,427 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 6,427 ft
- Max elevation
- 12,255 ft
- TrailRank
-
53
5
- Min elevation
- 7,001 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Time
- 4 hours 39 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2062
- Uploaded
- May 7, 2013
- Recorded
- May 2013
near Vilaflor, Canarias (España)
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Itinerary description
EN - The first section of the trail gains elevation progressively and soon starts off climbing a runnable section until Pico Viejo crater. From there the path becomes more challenging and difficult to follow specially with a headlamp. GPS helped me a lot. Plenty of sightseeing spots force you to stop to take pictures. Started early at 5:30 am with a clear starry sky with no moon. Turning off the headlamp offered magnificent views of The Milky Way.
Before 9 am you can go up to the Teide's crater rim without the mandatory Park permission.
Before 9 am you can go up to the Teide's crater rim without the mandatory Park permission.
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Summit
12,219 ft
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Waypoint
Mountain pass
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Congratulations for this challenge, Jordi. I think some time in making 0-4000 (Teide) in a day ... we shall see!
Salut i Cames!
Thanks Captain! :-) Sure you can do it!! and the scenery above 2000 mts is magnificent. There is a race course to do that in a day called "Tenerife Blue Trail" departing from "Los Cristianos".
Salut!
Update on the information from 2022. Access to the last path (#10 Telesforo Bravo ) which takes you to the actual pico Teide before 9am is no longer free. In addition to the traditional 200 daily permits to access after 9am there is now a different permit required for accessing between 6am and 9am (50 daily permits). Luckily we learnt about it from another wikiloc user. They are obtained in the same website of parques naturales as the other ones and it seems that so far they are available without problem and you just need to get it more than 24 hours in advance.
Thanks for the update and tips!
> They are obtained in the same website of parques naturales as the other ones and it seems that so far they are available without problem and you just need to get it more than 24 hours in advance.
I am on the website and I do not see this early morning option anywhere.
Can you tell me how I can get this before 9am ticket?