High Route of Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park

It’s one of the most known skiing journeys in the Pyrenees and one of the first mountain skiing classical ones in this mountain range. It passes inside the Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National park and, without a doubt, it will leave in us an amazing memory of this zone with plenty of lakes and placed between the Aran Valley and the Boi-Taüll and Noguera Pallaresa Valleys.

The wide web of kept shelters in the national park offers us multiple choices to perform the journey starting in different zones and make a variable number of days, also being a possibility to change the plan because of the weather conditions or give up through one of the accesses to its shelters.

We offer you a 5 journey plan that can be adapted to your needs so you can have an idea of what this place offers. Every day we plan a climb to a peak that will be done depending on the level and the aspirations of the group.

 Programme

• Stage 1: Salardú – Colomers shelter.
• Stage 2: Colomers shelter –  Ventosa i Calvell shelter. Option to climb to Montardo 2.826m.
• Stage 3: Ventosa i Calvell shelter–  Estany Llong shelter. Option to climb to the Peak of Contraix 2.957m
• Stage 4: Estany llong shelter– Ref d’amitges. Option to climb to the Peak of Portarro 2.723m.
• Stage 5: D’amitges shelter– Salardú through the Colomers shelter. Option to climb to the Tuc de la Ratera 2.857m.

Details

• Ratio: 6 participants per guide
• Dates: January-May
• Duration: 5 days (it can be extended to 7)
• Difficulty: BEA, S2-3
• Technical level BEA, S2-3: BEA, S2-3

 Price

• Price: From 450€/pax
• Things included:

  IFMGA High mountain guide service, shelter booking, guide’s technical and security material.

• Not included:

  Transport, trip expenses, shelter and accomodation expenses both from the client and the guide (about 250€ per person).

 Necessary material

Mountain skiing materials (skis, boots, furs, blades, poles), personal security material (2 technical ice-axes, crampons, harness, Arva transceiver, shovel, probe, climbing lanyard, 1 security snap hook and helmet), adequate clothes for high mountain and cold (gore-tex or similar jacket and trousers, 2 pairs of thermal socks, helmet or balaclava, thermal underwear and change, two pairs of gloves, sun and blizzard glasses, 40-50 litres backpack, water bottle, attack food (sweet and salty), isotonic drink, suncream, head torch and extra batteries, toilet bag and a light sleeping bag.

*If you don’t have some of this technical materials, ask us about availability.