Pyrenees and Ordesa Gorge Oct 2019 index

2019.10.10 - Thursday - 'A' grade walk - start ski resort town Panticosa, ~S up ski slopes on winding track, ~E to Refuge Cabaria de Sabocos near lake Sabocos, ridge Sabacos, track ~ NW along Rio Ripera, footpath to Panticosa - leader Robert Jackson (ascent about 3000ft distance 11/12miles)

How it looks in the Ski season?

looking back at Panticosa

up the road track servicing the ski lifts

zoomed into village in previous picture

A Crocus?

Masts for artificially spraying snow on slopes?

'lake' Sabocos - photographed into the sun

met perchance two other Alpine Overland walkers doing there own separate route

refuge at Lake Sabocos

a once used sheep pen?

Rio Ripera

top sign indicates our end point PANTICOSA as being 6 km away and taking 50 minutes - a rate of  7 km (4.3mph) - quite a speed even for fit walkers!

apparently un-worked small fields probably not worked for some time?

back in Panticosa

Pyrenees and Ordesa Gorge Oct 2019 index