Catalan Pyrenees GR11 Trek

Overview

The GR11 -- the Transpirenaica -- runs the whole Spanish flank of the Pyrenees: 820 kilometres from Cap de Creus on the Mediterranean, where you dip a boot in the sea, to Hondarribia on the Atlantic. In between lie roughly 40,000 metres of climbing through the range's finest country: the granite lake-basins of Aiguestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, the glacier-hung Maladeta massif beneath Aneto (3,404 metres, the Pyrenean high point) and the vast limestone trench of Ordesa below Monte Perdido. Against France's GR10 it is drier, higher and emptier; against the border-hugging HRP it is waymarked and hut-served -- the thru-hike most people should actually choose. Refugis (book August ahead) mix with wild camps, so carry a light tent for the remoter stages around Andorra. July and August are the reliable snow-free window for the high cols; September is quieter but the days shorten fast. Allow six to seven weeks and roughly 2,000 pounds with hut half-boards; resupply comes every three or four days in valley villages.

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