Walking and exploring Asturias and the Picos de Europa; general information and Nigel’s personal blog.
Posted in Ponga Mountains, Walks grade very difficult on Oct 19th, 2011
Tiatordos is the emblematic mountain of Ponga and there are two main ways of climbing it; the easier route starting from Pendones in the borough of Caso or the more demanding route starting from Taranes in Ponga when it’s possible to climb the summit and combine it with a complete circular walk around the mountain. […]
Posted in Ponga Mountains, Walks grade very difficult on Oct 6th, 2011
This walk starts at Ventaniella where there ia a medieval Inn and chapel, and when you arrive there you think you’ve jumped a couple of hundred years back in time. The setting is amazing; isolated in a valley surrounded by high mountains and beautiful beech forests. To reach Ventaniella you have to drive a long […]
Posted in Ponga Mountains, Walks grade difficult on Sep 17th, 2011
Being surrounded by so many lovely mountains it’s too difficult to decide which is my favourite walk, there can’t just be one but various and the ascent of Pico Zorro from Les Bedules is certainly one of them. When I walked it this time we were still experiencing an Indian summer so I wanted to […]
Posted in Ponga Mountains, Walks grade difficult on Sep 7th, 2011
I can remember doing this walk for the first time about 10 years ago when I was leading a group of people staying at the hotel on a walking holiday. I had looked at the maps and read about this walk, thought it looked good so decided to venture into the unknown. Now I would […]
