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Elevation: 15m
Parking: 40.3196°, -5.7897°
Ferrata: 40.3223°, -5.786°
Characteristics
Short and nice beginner via ferrata with nice views to high mountains in the back. Depending on the season with snow. Mostly horizontal with a little vertical passage at the end, which is the most difficult in this ferrata and maybe already K2 (B).
Arrival
Follow Google Maps to the Mirador de la Garganta, you will pass the Village of La Garganta. Attention, there are two places called Mirador de la Garganta. Don't park down close to the lake, you can drive much higher and closer to the ferrata through a good prepared street which goes up the mountain through a forest. There you will find the second Mirador de la Garganta with the plate and description of the ferrata.
Approach
From the parking you go some meters down to the description plate of the ferrata and behind you will find a hiking path up the mountain. You follow that path till you reach the top with a fence. Then turn left and you will see the first beautiful rock formations of Cancho de la Muela. Follow the path and soon you will find the beginning of the ferrata area with the first ferrata de iniciación K1 (A/B).
Descent
To ferrata area:
- same ferrata down / climb another route down
- from the end of the ferrata go direction north-east and you will find another cable with a rappel part. You need rope of 2 x 30m
To parking: Wherever you are around Cancho de la Garganta you can walk around the rocks and take the same path as the approach the way back.
Points of interest
The time of exit to the parking again would be around 45 min. The described time of exit means just the time to go down to the area again to start the next route.
As typical for the style in Spain/France the cable is only for security and should NOT be used for climbing, so of course also the difficulty level is based on that (different style like in the alps etc. where the cable has much more tension and counts as part of the ferrata)
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