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| Looking down on Panticosa |
Day three was another big day, with 15km and 800m of ascent, we were really starting to feel the days add up by this point. This was another day that felt a bit like filler. We were just getting further up the valley to where the really big mountains were. This one was again a bit tricky with the directions, probably because it wasn't a standard route people would do. There were some good views back towards where we had come from and over the dammed lakes we spent most of the week walking around. Whilst we didn't know it at the time, we could also see the route we would be taking in 2 days time. On the other side of the valley.
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Looking down on Sallent, the path in two days would head out of Sallent
to the left, through the forest. |
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| Another dam in the valley |
This day had some fairly killer ascents in it, they were never that long, just incredibly steep. Also the descent down was pretty tough too, no real path and straight down off the ridge we were hugging. This was one of the quietest day we had too, I don't think we saw a single other person the whole time we were out. That was nice and peaceful.
The first part of the walk was incredibly confusing, there were so many paths in the forest behind Panticosa. Luckily we had our GPS watches on so the directions, which were mainly given in terms of distances, could be deciphered. I'm not sure how you would go if you didn't have some way to measure the distance, count steps I suppose? It was another beautiful day, I'm not sure how we didn't get hideously sunburnt after this week. Thank goodness for they nice thick ozone layer over Europe.
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| About to head down to Sallent - this was a steep descent |
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| An abandoned shepherd's hut (?). Maybe it was ex-military |
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