Torre de Horcados Rojos, 2508m...Keep exploring Picos de Europa! April, 24th 2008

The Winter of 2008 was the worst that Cantabrican mountains have seen ever. The first great snowfall was towards the end of March. Weather in April was quite cloudy every day, which  had been doom to failure any attempt to go skiing. However, we took advantage of one of the few sunny days. We went to Fuente De in order to go up some peak in Picos de Europa.

We chose Horcados Rojos peak, because it is the nearest peak to the cable way. We had´t got too much time because we gathered later.

We applied sun lotion.



Edu took a lot of good photos, like this.

Horcados Rojos coll.

To reach the main slope from the coll to the summit we had to put crampons on.

And summit! The view was wonderful, especially for its spaciousness. It seemed like we were hanged over the valley.

LLambrion area full of snow in spite of being a dry winter.

Due to rain in the previous days, the surface had those uncomfortable undulations...

Summing up, a good day in a bad winter.