The day after running the length of Cañon Río Lobos, we headed north to another park—Picos de Urbión. This mountainous, natural area also lies between the provinces of Soria and Burgos and part of the Iberian System—the same mountain system of Moncayo, outside of Zaragoza. The plan was to climb this region’s peak—Urbión.
After we explored some villages of the pre-Pyrenees by car, I decided to spend the following couple days exploring some more on foot. I had been especially eager to go into the hills on the opposite side of the main road since it is an area that would be completely new to me, and I noticed on our maps that the GR 15 runs through that area.
What does it mean to have an unsuccessful hike? Running has objective measures of success and even the DNF or did not finish. But what about hiking? If you are doing a hike to a specific destination, I suppose not making it there could be considered a DNF, but you still went hiking, right?
Although things started to clear slightly on our descent from Toubkal, it was merely a short break in the blizzard. Overnight, it intensified as forecasted, so we chose to descend.
This is the second post in a series about my recent trip to Morocco, where we hike from the town of Aremd to the refuge Les Mouflons.
After three days of skiing in Andorra, I turned my attention to exploring some of the mountains surrounding Pas de la Casa: Pico dels Padrons, Pic d’Envalira, and Pic Negre d’Envalira.
In the beginning of December, we took a four-day trip to the island of Lanzarote in the Canary Islands and explored the island in our favorite way—on foot.
The Faja de las Flores is one of the most beautiful, classic routes in the Ordesa Valley (Valle de Ordesa), located in the Ordesa and Monte Perdido National Park. While I do love the evocative name, Monte Perdido—Lost Mountain, it’s also a fantastic place to see some color in the fall and I really enjoyed a fall day hike we did there last year. So we headed back there this October.
If you follow me on Instagram, you know about my second trip to France this past September/October. Unlike the previous trip to Brittany in August, this trip included outdoor activities, like kayaking and hiking. This is the last of 3 posts about these activities. Click to see the others, Kayaking the Gorges of Tarn and …
Who knew there were volcanoes in France? Not me. So we headed north to check out some of the so-called young volcanoes in the Parc Naturel Régional des Volcans d’Auvergne.