Your comments on this walk, your experiences and suggestions, and your photos are very welcome. The Pyrenees Orientales are my second home.
When I get a chance I will send up some images. Admittedly, with enough time it is worth spending the night at the refuge or camping nearby, and catch the pic early in the morning. Certainly doable as I have met families with children on the same route coming back from the summit mid afternoon as we were ascending for a night at Corlalets. The last 90 mins back down is tough admittedly. Day packs only and only snacks as food available at Cortalets. Ten hours return from Los Masao de Valmanya via lunch at the chalet/refuge de Cortalets. I think it can with reasonable level of fitness and enough time. You advise that the wonderful Canigo cannot by done without a night out unless you are superhuman. hoping to do le Canigo (again) and the Pilo de Belmaig over a coming long-weekend. Hi there, just been reading our Eastern Pyrenees walks. See our Eastern Pyrenees and Pyrenees pages for further general information. Com l’any passat, enguany la rebuda es farà a la plaça del Rei i només s’hi podrà accedir amb reserva prèvia. The Rough Guide to the Pyrenees - Rough Guides: a good guide to the area, it also has a good section on Canigou. D’ençà de fa més de cinquanta anys, la Flama del Canigó arriba a Barcelona, on és rebuda de manera solemne, per part dels Gegants de la Ciutat, els Capgrossos Macers i l’Àliga de la Ciutat. The Balcon de Canigou, a high trail amid cliffs, with huge views to the north-east.īoth the HRP and the GR10 circle round Canigou's northern flanks, and a diversion can be made to its heights if the walker of said routes doesn't already have enough on his/her plate.Ī fantastic book for Canigou walks is Le Guide Rando's Canigou, Vallespir - Conflent. There are many day walks you can do on the massif, including: The peak is 1.5 hrs or so from Cortalets, a lot longer from Mariailles. The routes are many and varied (including how arduous and dramatic you want your approach to be), so plan carefully, and book chalet/refuge space well ahead in high season. From the north, routes converge on the Chalet Cortalets: from the south, on the Refuge Mariailles to the south-west (these are longer walks than the approaches from the north). Sitting between the Tech and Tet valleys, Canigou can be climbed from many directions, but all require a night in a refuge unless you are superhuman. Unsurprisingly, you get huge views (Andorra to the Med) from its peaks on a good day. The Canigou makes for fine and varied walking, its lower slopes forested but its peaks all rock, scree and cliff. As a key high point (at 2,785m) of the region (although there are higher peaks to the west), it is visible from a long way off (from both Spain and the French lowlands to the north), frequently cloud-girt although its peaks often rise magisterially above such mortal concerns. The last great eastern bastion of the Pyrenean range, the Canigou massif more than merely dominates its surroundings: it has a special place in the Catalan imagination.
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