Ridolaina Valley

Ridolaina Valley

You can access Prat d’Aguiló by a track from Montellà, but the most recommended walking option is to acces from Nas, following the “Ruta dels Segadors” through the Ridolaina valley. Known as La Cerdanya road, it was used by the groups of reapers from Gòsol, who rented farmhouses in La Cerdanya. In the summer of 1906, the painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso also used this route.


Technical Data


Access: From Bellver de Cerdanya, take the local road to Pi. Then continue to the right on another road to Nas. Cars have to be parked at the entrance of the village.

Home: Nas.

Difficulty: Easy

Maximum altitude: 2,040 m

Elevation gain: 815 m

Total duration: 5.30 h (3 h one way + 2.30 h return).

Time of year: Second half of spring, summer and the first two months of autumn.

Notes: In winter it is a route suitable for snowshoeing.

Route


From Nas (1,225 m) follow a track marled the yellow-white stripes of the PR C-124. Cross ” Pla de Nas” and leave a shortcut to the right that climbs the “Collet” (1,360 m, 20 min). Here it connects with the track. On the plains of “Hereus”, on the other side, the ruins of the tower of “Sant Romà”, a medieval fortification, can be seen falling from the valley. Further up, take another shortcut to the right that crosses a canal and connects again with the track in front of the Tosca fountain. A few steps to the right, along the track, you reach the spring of the Cortal de l’Oriol (1,560 m, 1 h 15 min). Above it is a meadow with a shepherds’ refuge. Without leaving the track, go down to La Baga, where the track gains altitude. You cross the Abeurador torrent and, going arounf a buttress, you cross the Eres torrent. A little further up there is a detour to the left (1,640 m, 1 h 45 min) which must be taken. Leave the main track and go up following a secondary track. Not much later, you have to leave it on a path, also on the left, which runs very close to the Eras river, but which does not cross it. The slope increases, but it is pleasant thanks to the panorama of the northern side of Cadí. After a while you reach a meadow surrounded by the woods and find a forest track that passes by a metal hut. The slope is moderate and this track connects with the one that goes from Montellà to Prat d’Aguiló to the Coll de l’Home Mort (1,850 m, 2 h 30 min).

Continue along the track to the left, where a shortcut also on the left leads very close to car park at the end of the track. The same track leads to the guarded refuge of Prat d’Aguiló (2,040 m, 3 h). From this meadow, a walk from the northern side of Cadí, the whole Ridolaina valley is seen from above.

Map and altimetry


Magic mountains

Magic mountains

Muntanyes Màgiques is a challenge for hiking and Catalan Pyrenees lovers: 5 stages to go from Ribes de Freser (Ripollès) to Estana (Cerdanya), 17 peaks, 98.47 km. and 15,113 m. of cumulated gain. A hard but amazing route. You just have to walk and enjoy. Magic Mountains takes care of the rest.



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Phone: 93 821 51 11

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The Other Side of the Fork

The Other Side of the Gallows

Route of historical, cultural and landscape interest whose track passes through the Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park.

The route begins a walk to the impressive north face of the Cadí, in La Cerdanya, and it is needed to move towards Berguedà through “pas dels Gosolans”, an old pass that connected both regions, and that takes us to the land of the imposing Pedraforca.

This route allows us to discover the Vansa Valley, where we will intensely enjoy small mountain villages and their people who still keep alive the conservation of the rural heritage of their valley.

Finally we walk down to the plain of Alt Urgell, a green valley rich in crops, with the Segre river and surrounded by mountains. We then arrive to civilization at La Seu d’Urgell.



Cadí High Route

Cadí High Route

This is a circular and self-guided route (there is also a guided option) that runs through the Cadí-Moixeró mountain range.

Along 7 stages, 88.5 kilometers and 7300 meters of cumulative gain, you walk along the mountain range and climb 5 of its peaks: La Tosa, Penyes Altes del Moixeró, Comabona, Pic de Costa Cabirolera and the mythical Pedraforca . The starting point is Can Cerdanyola. Cars are parked there and we move towards the “Sant Jordi” refuge.

Other refuges on the trip are: El Niu de l’Àliga, Prat d’Aguiló, in Molí de Gósol, Lluís Estasen and Vents del Cadí, the latter is the last refuge in the route, where the final prize is collected.



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Phone: 679 191 847

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