ed. alpina Carros de Foc 24/25

Features ed. alpina carros de foc 24/25

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It was the summer of 1987 when some refuge guards in the area decided to make the Pallars - Ribagorça - Aran crossing, all at once, in a single day. It wasn't a competition, just a way to visit the other guards and chat for a while.

Someone, we don't know exactly who, or why, called it Carros de Foc, and since then, whether summer or winter, when someone makes the crossing during the day, the word spreads from shelter to shelter as fast as the wind crosses the hills: "today the Carros de Foc pass by"

Since that summer of 1987, there are many mountaineers, walkers or runners who have enjoyed the Carros de Foc crossing and there are many who repeat the experience, because there will always be corners full of beauty yet to be discovered.

Our challenge is to spread the love we feel for these mountains and make known the beauty of an extraordinary journey, which will surely also provide us with unique experiences.

El Pallars, Alta Ribagorça and Val d'Aran are the regions that guard one of the most beautiful areas of the Pyrenees and make up the Aigües Tortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park.

Discovering these landscapes has always been one of the objectives of most mountaineers. Perhaps for this reason, shelters appeared in the area with the idea of facilitating ascents and crossings and over time these shelters have become part of the landscape. Thus now we can find a total of nine saved refuges that allow us to explore the area making different combinations of itineraries.

To do the classic Carros de Foc route we will need between 5 and 7 days.