Enjoy four days of trekking in the Aran Valley.
A great active getaway to be able to enjoy some of the most representative corners of this privileged corner of the Pyrenees.
calf will be our base camp, and it will be from here where every day, after a short trip by vehicle we will make each excursion. At night we will enjoy a good dinner to recharge our body with energy for the next day..
The proximity of Aigüestortes National Park and San Mauricio Lake configures the area as one of the most attractive in the Pyrenees, ideal to discover the most classic and grateful mountaineering.
The Val d’Aran It is located on the Atlantic slope of the Central pyrenees, fact that conditions everything; the weather, history and relationships with your neighbors. The river Garona makes its way north through Aquitaine lands, in France, through the only natural exit from the valley. In fact and despite being administratively integrated in Spain, It was not until 1948, when the Vielha tunnel, that the valley was communicated throughout the year by road with the rest of the state. All of this has kept their Occitan language and culture.. Another important aspect of Val d’Aran, in addition to its orientation is that the 30 % of the valley is above the 2.000 altitude meters.
Despite the great urban development that the valley has suffered in recent years, we can still enjoy its cultural heritage. Towns, churches, stately homes, churches, laundries, mills or troughs have lasted to this day. The town of Arties, with beautiful views of the Montardo (2.833 m), and its Romanesque church of Santa Maria de Arties, they are just an example.
The natural products that this land brings to your kitchen are such as garden vegetables, game meat, mushrooms, the fruits of the forest (like blueberries, wild strawberries, gooseberries or raspberries) or honey. Hence the “civet” wild boar, the Aranese pot o la truhada.
Day 1. Journey to destination. Accommodation in Aran Valley
Day 2. Lakes of Rosari and Baciver
Distance 10,5 km Elevation + 470 m. Unevenness – 470m.
Day 3. The 7 Colomers Lakes
Distance 15 km Elevation + 770 m. Unevenness – 770m.
Day 4. Circular Lac de Mar and Restanca Refuge
Distance 10 km Elevation +650 m Desnivel – 650 m sick
Day 5. Redon Lake
Distance 8 km Elevation +500 m Desnivel -500 m
Day 1. Journey to destination. Accommodation in Aran Valley
Day 2. Lakes of Rosari and Baciver
We will go up together the Arriu Malo since Page until Estanhs de Baciver and del Rosari. This itinerary will allow us to know the Baciver circus, to the limit of Val d’Aran with the Pallars Sobirá, at the birth of Garona, the most important river of the Aran.
In the afternoon visit to calf
Distance 10,5 km Elevation + 470 m. Unevenness – 470m.
Day 3. The 7 Colomers Lakes
On this second day we will visit the largest group of lakes in Europe located between the Aran Valley and he Aigüestortes National Park and Sant Maurici Lake.
Our tour will depart from Banhs of Tredós and it will take us through a landscape of water, roca, immense flora and spectacular views and what the Colomers circus will offer us.
In the afternoon visit to Arties
Distance 15 km Elevation + 770 m. Unevenness – 770m.
Day 4. Circular Lac de Mar and Restanca Refuge
We will start from Bridge of Research, at the head of the Valarties. Down the valley floor, we will cross the forest Arrialhs until the Pontet de Rius. We will begin the climb to the refuge of the Rest, with its great lake, but we will continue one more stretch until Lac de Mar, a beautiful and huge lake surrounded by great mountains. The descent will be done by the same itinerary.
Distance 10 km Elevation +650 m Desnivel – 650 m sick
Day 5. Redon Lake
From the mouth South of the Vielha tunnel, where is the old Vielha Hospital, we will introduce ourselves in the little Conangles Valley. Almost reaching the Port of Rivers, we will take a path towards a slope that will leave us in the Redon Lake, from where we will enjoy excellent views of the Maladetas.
Distance 8 km Elevation +500 m Desnivel -500 m
Prices
Dates flexibility
We always propose several departures with various dates but we also adapt the trips to your availability. Therefore, Do not hesitate to contact us if the dates do not suit you and we will schedule an outing for you.
Meeting time and place
Between 10 a 5 days before the start of the trip we will send you information on the meeting place and time as well as the name and telephone number of the guide who will accompany the group. further, we will send more useful information that will facilitate the final preparations.
Transportation to the area where this trip takes place
If you want to share transportation from the area where you reside, when you make the reservation and send us your information, you can indicate your availability. You will have to allow us in writing to share your name and telephone number with other participants who reside in your area and who are also willing to agree.
Double / single room
You have the option of a single room if there is availability. Please ask us for information in this regard in the event that you are interested.
If you do not want to pay the single room supplement, Please let us know that you want a shared room. It will depend on whether another person is also interested in sharing, taking as order the date on which the reservation is paid. Whenever we can, we will share a room with someone of the same sex, but if not, We will notify you previously so that you can make the decision to share with someone of a different sex or choose individual. If the group is odd and everyone wants to share a room, the last person to sign up will have to pay an individual supplement.
Information about the insurance included in the trip and other options
The activity has including accident and rescue insurance. If you practice mountain sports or other sports on a regular basis and also travel we recommend travel insurance, that in addition to covering accidents and rescue has greater coverage on your trip.
If you do not have travel insurance, you have the option of contracting it through our travel agency. Muntania Outdoors processes insurance with Interworld. The cost of these insurances is lower if you do it through Muntania Outdoors than if you do it directly with Intermundial.
Ski / Adventure Plus Insurance
We recommend insurance Ski / Aventura Plus. Is a travel insurance and it is also a insurance that covers the practice of many activities sports. You can hire it for the period of time that the trip lasts or for a year, the coverage start date being the one you decide. If you take out insurance for one year, it will not only cover the trip you make with Muntania Outdoors but it will also cover the rest of the trips and sports activities you do during that annual period..
Ski / Adventure Plus Insurance with Cancellation
It has the same coverage as the previous insurance but it will also have a more complete coverage because it will cover the prior cancellation of the trip and tickets due to force majeure. (disease, injury…) both you and a family member.
The travel insurance with cancellation that we manage allows a refund of the amounts previously paid up to 1.000 euros for trips in Spain and up 2.000 euros for trips abroad. If the amount of the trip plus the flight is greater, you can increase the amount you want to insure (Consult).
Cancellation Plus
This insurance covers the expenses that you have had in hiring a trip and buying tickets if you have to cancel the trip before departure for a series of reasons such as illness of yours or a family member (see insurance conditions).
This insurance may interest you if you already have travel insurance that does not cover the previous cancellation of this or if you already have insurance that covers sports activity.
Multi-assistance Plus with Cancellation and without Cancellation
Activity insurance
Activity has accident and rescue insurance included, but without any doubt, we recommend a travel insurance and if you also hire "with cancellation”Will have a more complete coverage. You can hire the travel insurance for the period of time that the activity or the annual insurance (start date the day you decide) that will cover you not only the activity you do with Muntaneu but also many other sports activities you do during the year.
With cancellation, if you or a family member has any mishap before or during the activity, You will have the right to a refund of the amount paid (or a part if it is already in the period of time that the activity is developed) both on the tickets and on the trip itself. further, Through travel insurance you will have covered the expenses for an early return.
*We manage these additional insurances with Interworld and the cost is lower through MOUNTAIN that if you manage it directly.
**MUNTANEU ACCIDENT INSURANCE INCLUDED: GALIA-PREBAL- NO POLICE 4020006195 Muntania Outdoors. Email: siniestros@galia.es / Telephone: 972 401 016
** It is the client's responsibility to report the accident to the insurance company as soon as possible. In the last information email we will give you again the policy number and assistance telephone number so that you can take it with you.
**** Accident insurance works with reimbursement of expenses, for which the client presents the invoice and later the insurance company will make the payment. The client will have to advance the payment if the insurance company indicates it, being returned by it later within the limits of the policy. In any case Muntaneu is not responsible for advancing any required ransom or assistance payment.
Another questions
The selection of the itineraries may be subject to changes due to meteorological reasons or for any other reason that makes the route unsafe. In that case the travel guide will look for the best of the possible alternatives.
*When booking an activity in Muntaneu, if the activity is not yet confirmed, you can make the pre-reservation completely free but if the activity is already effective, You can confirm your reservation with the payment of a deposit of only the 30% of the final amount.
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The Val d’Aran It is located on the Atlantic slope of the Central pyrenees, fact that conditions everything; the weather, history and relationships with your neighbors. The river Garona makes its way north through Aquitaine lands, in France, through the only natural exit from the valley. In fact and despite being administratively integrated in Spain, It was not until 1948, when the Vielha tunnel, that the valley was communicated throughout the year by road with the rest of the state. All of this has kept their Occitan language and culture.. Another important aspect of Val d’Aran, in addition to its orientation is that the 30 % of the valley is above the 2.000 altitude meters.
Despite the great urban development that the valley has suffered in recent years, we can still enjoy its cultural heritage. Towns, churches, stately homes, churches, laundries, mills or troughs have lasted to this day. The town of Arties, with beautiful views of the Montardo (2.833 m), and its Romanesque church of Santa Maria de Arties, they are just an example.
The natural products that this land brings to your kitchen are such as garden vegetables, game meat, mushrooms, the fruits of the forest (like blueberries, wild strawberries, gooseberries or raspberries) or honey. Hence the “civet” wild boar, the Aranese pot o la truhada.
Day 1. Journey to destination. Accommodation in Aran Valley
Day 2. Lakes of Rosari and Baciver
Distance 10,5 km Elevation + 470 m. Unevenness – 470m.
Day 3. The 7 Colomers Lakes
Distance 15 km Elevation + 770 m. Unevenness – 770m.
Day 4. Circular Lac de Mar and Restanca Refuge
Distance 10 km Elevation +650 m Desnivel – 650 m sick
Day 5. Redon Lake
Distance 8 km Elevation +500 m Desnivel -500 m
Day 1. Journey to destination. Accommodation in Aran Valley
Day 2. Lakes of Rosari and Baciver
We will go up together the Arriu Malo since Page until Estanhs de Baciver and del Rosari. This itinerary will allow us to know the Baciver circus, to the limit of Val d’Aran with the Pallars Sobirá, at the birth of Garona, the most important river of the Aran.
In the afternoon visit to calf
Distance 10,5 km Elevation + 470 m. Unevenness – 470m.
Day 3. The 7 Colomers Lakes
On this second day we will visit the largest group of lakes in Europe located between the Aran Valley and he Aigüestortes National Park and Sant Maurici Lake.
Our tour will depart from Banhs of Tredós and it will take us through a landscape of water, roca, immense flora and spectacular views and what the Colomers circus will offer us.
In the afternoon visit to Arties
Distance 15 km Elevation + 770 m. Unevenness – 770m.
Day 4. Circular Lac de Mar and Restanca Refuge
We will start from Bridge of Research, at the head of the Valarties. Down the valley floor, we will cross the forest Arrialhs until the Pontet de Rius. We will begin the climb to the refuge of the Rest, with its great lake, but we will continue one more stretch until Lac de Mar, a beautiful and huge lake surrounded by great mountains. The descent will be done by the same itinerary.
Distance 10 km Elevation +650 m Desnivel – 650 m sick
Day 5. Redon Lake
From the mouth South of the Vielha tunnel, where is the old Vielha Hospital, we will introduce ourselves in the little Conangles Valley. Almost reaching the Port of Rivers, we will take a path towards a slope that will leave us in the Redon Lake, from where we will enjoy excellent views of the Maladetas.
Distance 8 km Elevation +500 m Desnivel -500 m
Prices
Dates flexibility
We always propose several departures with various dates but we also adapt the trips to your availability. Therefore, Do not hesitate to contact us if the dates do not suit you and we will schedule an outing for you.
Meeting time and place
Between 10 a 5 days before the start of the trip we will send you information on the meeting place and time as well as the name and telephone number of the guide who will accompany the group. further, we will send more useful information that will facilitate the final preparations.
Transportation to the area where this trip takes place
If you want to share transportation from the area where you reside, when you make the reservation and send us your information, you can indicate your availability. You will have to allow us in writing to share your name and telephone number with other participants who reside in your area and who are also willing to agree.
Double / single room
You have the option of a single room if there is availability. Please ask us for information in this regard in the event that you are interested.
If you do not want to pay the single room supplement, Please let us know that you want a shared room. It will depend on whether another person is also interested in sharing, taking as order the date on which the reservation is paid. Whenever we can, we will share a room with someone of the same sex, but if not, We will notify you previously so that you can make the decision to share with someone of a different sex or choose individual. If the group is odd and everyone wants to share a room, the last person to sign up will have to pay an individual supplement.
Information about the insurance included in the trip and other options
The activity has including accident and rescue insurance. If you practice mountain sports or other sports on a regular basis and also travel we recommend travel insurance, that in addition to covering accidents and rescue has greater coverage on your trip.
If you do not have travel insurance, you have the option of contracting it through our travel agency. Muntania Outdoors processes insurance with Interworld. The cost of these insurances is lower if you do it through Muntania Outdoors than if you do it directly with Intermundial.
Ski / Adventure Plus Insurance
We recommend insurance Ski / Aventura Plus. Is a travel insurance and it is also a insurance that covers the practice of many activities sports. You can hire it for the period of time that the trip lasts or for a year, the coverage start date being the one you decide. If you take out insurance for one year, it will not only cover the trip you make with Muntania Outdoors but it will also cover the rest of the trips and sports activities you do during that annual period..
Ski / Adventure Plus Insurance with Cancellation
It has the same coverage as the previous insurance but it will also have a more complete coverage because it will cover the prior cancellation of the trip and tickets due to force majeure. (disease, injury…) both you and a family member.
The travel insurance with cancellation that we manage allows a refund of the amounts previously paid up to 1.000 euros for trips in Spain and up 2.000 euros for trips abroad. If the amount of the trip plus the flight is greater, you can increase the amount you want to insure (Consult).
Cancellation Plus
This insurance covers the expenses that you have had in hiring a trip and buying tickets if you have to cancel the trip before departure for a series of reasons such as illness of yours or a family member (see insurance conditions).
This insurance may interest you if you already have travel insurance that does not cover the previous cancellation of this or if you already have insurance that covers sports activity.
Multi-assistance Plus with Cancellation and without Cancellation
Activity insurance
Activity has accident and rescue insurance included, but without any doubt, we recommend a travel insurance and if you also hire "with cancellation”Will have a more complete coverage. You can hire the travel insurance for the period of time that the activity or the annual insurance (start date the day you decide) that will cover you not only the activity you do with Muntaneu but also many other sports activities you do during the year.
With cancellation, if you or a family member has any mishap before or during the activity, You will have the right to a refund of the amount paid (or a part if it is already in the period of time that the activity is developed) both on the tickets and on the trip itself. further, Through travel insurance you will have covered the expenses for an early return.
*We manage these additional insurances with Interworld and the cost is lower through MOUNTAIN that if you manage it directly.
**MUNTANEU ACCIDENT INSURANCE INCLUDED: GALIA-PREBAL- NO POLICE 4020006195 Muntania Outdoors. Email: siniestros@galia.es / Telephone: 972 401 016
** It is the client's responsibility to report the accident to the insurance company as soon as possible. In the last information email we will give you again the policy number and assistance telephone number so that you can take it with you.
**** Accident insurance works with reimbursement of expenses, for which the client presents the invoice and later the insurance company will make the payment. The client will have to advance the payment if the insurance company indicates it, being returned by it later within the limits of the policy. In any case Muntaneu is not responsible for advancing any required ransom or assistance payment.
Another questions
The selection of the itineraries may be subject to changes due to meteorological reasons or for any other reason that makes the route unsafe. In that case the travel guide will look for the best of the possible alternatives.
If you wish, You can propose the date to carry out this activity. Just fill in the following form, Tell us when it would be better for you and as soon as possible one of our guides will contact you to confirm all the details.
TABLE OF DIFFICULTIES
HIKING AND TREKKING: NF / TT
PHYSICAL LEVEL | ||
Unevenness + accumulated | Physical condition | |
* | until 700 m | Normal: sporadic sports practice |
** | until 1200 m | Good: practicing sports regularly |
*** | until 1500 m | Very good: practicing sports regularly |
TYPE OF LAND | |
* | Forest tracks or trails in good condition |
** | Trails in good condition. Presence of rocks and roots that requires attention during the tread |
*** | Obstructed trails, quarries and out of the way |
MOUNTAIN SKIING: NF / NE
PHYSICAL LEVEL | ||
Unevenness + accumulated | Physical condition | |
* | until 700 m | Normal: sporadic sports practice |
** | until 1200 m | Good: practicing sports regularly |
*** | until 1500 m | Very good: practicing sports regularly |
SKI LEVEL | ||
Blachere Scale and Traynard Scale relationship | Ski level | |
* | EM / S1-S2 | Inexperienced or inexperienced in mountaineering skiing that although they go down in parallel on the piste have difficulties in the off-piste descents |
** | EB / S2-S3 | Already started with mastery of the parallel on slopes up to 35 º |
*** | EB-EMB LOW / S4 | With experience who ski on any non-extreme slope (up to 35º-40º) using different descent techniques |
**** | EMB / S4-S5 | With experience who ski on any slope (up to 45º) mastering the queue jump |
Blachére scale according to the technical level of the skier | |
IN | Average skier who can handle moderate and wide slopes of up to 25º |
EB | Good skier, able to face slopes of 30º-35º and difficult snows |
EMB | Very good skier, up to slopes of 40-45º, with exposed steps and snows of all kinds |
EE | Excellent skier: able to face slopes of up to 50º, with obligatory passages somewhat exposed and with snows of all kinds |
EX | Extreme skier, able to face slopes of more than 50º, with highly exposed obligatory passages and snow of all kinds |
Traynard scale | |
S1 | Low slopes with ease for turning. Very suitable areas for off-piste initiation |
S2 | Low slopes or moderate slopes (up to 25º) but with room for turning and without obstacles. |
S3 | Moderate slope (up to 35º). No difficulty in all types of snow. Downhills that can be considered accessible to good or very good skiers |
S4 | Slope maintained higher up to 45º in terrain with little exposure and between 35º-40º in exposed terrain, narrow and bound. |
S5 | Very strong slopes, inclination greater than 45º-50º, very obligatory terrain and with exposure. Forbidden to fall! |
S6 | Maintained incline greater than 50º on exposed terrain or more than 55º on little exposed terrain. |
S7 | More of 60 º, very exposed |
CLIMBING: NC / NT
COMMITMENT LEVEL | |
Commitment level | Description |
* | Short itinerary, not far away, easy descent. |
** | Longer itinerary with certain objective hazards, easy descent. Less than half a day of climbing. |
*** | Wide itinerary in need of good mountaineering experience. Long approach and tricky descent. At least half a day of climbing or a full day. |
**** | Long itinerary on a great wall; delicate course and exposed to objective dangers on the ascent and on the approach. Difficult withdrawal, track not equipped, difficult descent. The rope must have an excellent level of competence. At least half a day of climbing or a full day. |
TECHNICAL LEVEL | |
Difficulty graduation | Description |
III | Fucking, you have to use your hands but prey abounds. |
IV / VI * | Land where you already have to use the rope. |
V / V * | Difficult climbing requiring systematic belaying. |
6a / 6a + | Difficult climbing requiring systematic belaying. |
6b/6b+ | Difficult climbing requiring systematic belaying. |
* If there is any part of the route that must be progressed in artificial climbing we will add this classification:
A0. We hold on to the safety and surpass ourselves in order to progress. We do not use stirrups.
A1 Easy artificial. The sites are usually simple and solid.
A2 Moderate artificial. Sites are typically strong, but they can be delicate and arduous to place. Normally there are one or two locations that only support the weight of our body.
VIAS FERRATAS: NC / NT
COMMITMENT LEVEL | |
Commitment level | Description |
* | Short itinerary, not far away, easy descent. |
** | Longer itinerary with certain objective hazards, easy descent. |
*** | Wide itinerary in need of a good experience in the mountains. Long approach and tricky descent. |
**** | Long itinerary on a great wall; delicate course and exposed to objective dangers on the ascent and on the approach. Difficult withdrawal, track not equipped, difficult descent. The rope must have an excellent level of competence. |
TECHNICAL LEVEL | |
Difficulty graduation | Description |
K1 | Easy |
K2 | Little difficult |
K3 | Something difficult |
K4 | Hard |
K5 | Very difficult |
K6 | Extremely difficult |
* Additionally, the French scale could be added:
The French scale, inspired by the graduation mode of the classic alpine routes, dispose of 6 different levels of difficulty of F a ED on a scale of easy a extremely difficult. The main difference with the escala Hüsler is that intermediate levels are also accepted here indicated with the symbol (+) superior o (-) inferior, like in the climbing.
Easy | Little difficult | Quite difficult | Hard | Very difficult | Extremely difficult |
F | PD | AD | D | TD | ED |
*Clarifying that the extremely difficult level does not mean that it is so difficult as to put the human capacity to the limit, but it defines the most difficult itineraries that exist.
MOUNTAIN CLIMBING: NF/ NT
PHYSICAL LEVEL | ||
Unevenness + accumulated | Physical condition | |
* | until 700 m | Normal: sporadic sports practice |
** | until 1200 m | Good: practicing sports regularly |
*** | until 1500 m | Very good: practicing sports regularly |
TECHNICAL LEVEL | |
Difficulty graduation | Description |
F: Easy | Slopes (of rock, snow and / or ice) with moderate slopes, always lower than 45%, that are promoted progressing (in snow sometimes with ice ax). Easy climbs up to grade II. Some sections of glacier with crevasses. Experienced mountaineers can ascend without rope. |
PD: Little difficult | Slopes (of rock, snow and / or ice) with steep slopes always higher than 45%, although they walk up. Narrow, aerial ridges and ridges. Climbing of some difficulty, up to III degree. Cracked glaciers. The use of the rope may be necessary on more than one occasion. |
AD: Something difficult | Long earrings (of rock, snow and / or ice) with steep slopes always higher than 50%, although they can walk up. Narrow, aerial ridges and ridges. Climbs of moderate difficulty even on vertical terrain, grades III and IV. Very cracked and complicated glaciers. Mandatory use of rope. Only for experienced mountaineers. |
D: Hard | Maintained climbing, so much in rock (frequent IVº), ice or snow |
MD: Very difficult. (TD in France) | Difficult technical ascents and climbs on any type of terrain, being able to reach up to the Vº degree of classic climbing. Considerable length. Limit graduation slopes. Very high exposure. Required a lot of technique. In remote places. |
ED: Extremely difficult | Extreme difficulty with huge exposure, long-lasting, in remote places |
CANYONS: ND
DIFFICULTY LEVEL | ||
Denomination | Description | |
* | Familiar | Drops of a small length, and comfortable approaches. Possible some small rappel. Existence of playful elements to allow the little ones to enjoy themselves in the company of adults. Eventually existence of some optional adult progression elements. |
** | Initiation | Runs of moderate length, and comfortable approaches. No more than three small rappels. Existence of playful elements that will allow us to discover the activity in a pleasant way. Generally without forced jumps. Eventually existence of some more challenging optional progression items. |
*** | Sports | Moderate length descents and moderate approaches, eventually some return or approach with good unevenness. Presence of rappels in greater numbers, or someone taller, in general without going beyond 20 m. Progression elements like jumps, slides, living waters, most challenging, but with controlled risk. |
**** | Technical | Drops between moderate and long length, possibly long approaches or with sections of steep slope. Presence of rappels, some with distance greater than 30 meters. Progression elements like jumps, slides, living waters that require knowing the correct execution of the technique. |
