Snowshoes - Week course

A WEEK WITH SNOWSHOES

Five days with a lot of fun! Enjoy a different kind of week learning and progressing with snowshoes. Start with easy (and at the same time incredible) hikes and complete the fifth day with one of the 3000s of the massif that has nothing to envy to the best known.

Lots to explore, lots to discover and lots to enjoy! Find a different way to move through the snow, snowshoeing may be the sport that catches your fancy.

What do we offer you?

Day 1: Chía mountain range: viewpoint of the three valley

- Maximum altitude: 2515 m
- Altitude: ±800 m
- One of the interior mountain ranges of the Pyrenees, with wide, medium and easy slopes. The panoramic view over the whole Benasque Valley is unique, as well as over the Gistain Valley and the Cotiella area.

Day 2: Ardonés valley and Castanesa peak

Maximum altitude: 2861 m
Altitude: ±1000 m
One of the peaks with the best views of the south face of the Maladetas Aneto massif. In addition to having a unique panoramic view of the Benasque Valley and Castanesa due to its location. Without being a 3000, it lives up to its height and its slopes offer options for all levels of snowshoeing, with a descent of more than 1000 metres.

Day 3: Hospital de Benasque and Sacroux peak

Maximum altitude: 2678 m
Elevation gain: ±925 m
On the physical border with France, the Sacroux peak has the beauty of a varied ascent, black pine forest, open slopes, frozen lakes and a panoramic view of the Maladetas massif in the foreground, the Benasque Valley and the Luchon Valley (France), the contrast of the two slopes makes it particularly striking.

Day 4: from Llanos del Hospital to Maladetas glacier

Maximum altitude: 3000 m
Altitude: 1240 m+ and 900 m-
One of the few remaining glaciers in the Pyrenees today. Due to its height and orientation, it is perhaps one of the places with the best snow quality for most of the winter and spring. Its physical location makes the landscape of the French and Aranese Pyrenees spectacular, as well as the spectacular Maladeta Peak that watches over it from the verticality of its name.
Overnight stay at La Renclusa refuge.

Day 5: from La Renclusa hut to Diente de Alba peak

Maximum altitude: 3120 m
Altitude: 980 m+ and 1370 m-
One of the easternmost 3000 in the massif, together with Pico de Alba. Its ascent has nothing to envy to the highest peaks, as it is magnified by the black pine forest through which we will make a large part of the descent, being the most technical ascent of the week, in the final part. It will be the reward for a technical and physical progression with the snowshoes. Your arrival at the summit is a short rocky or mixed climb with a reduced space for the final photo. A peak in every sense of the word.

What will you need?