Hiking in Catalonia

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Catalonia is a great place to hike, climb and ski. Its mild weather and its orography is great to practice mountain sports all year long. Catalonia has also a long tradition in hiking, climbing and skiing with clubs all over the country.

Contents 1 Planning a trip 1.1 Route 1.2 Timing 1.3 Not to forget 2 Planning a meeting 3 Where to get maps and hikes 4 Catalan orography 5 Weather Information 6 Public transport 6.1 Train 6.2 Buses 6.3 Taxis 6.4 Share car 7 Where to sleep 8 The water 9 Fires 10 Beahaviour on the mountains 11 Top 20 places(the most popular ones) 12 The most beautifull places 13 Cautions, safe hiking 13.1 Dangers 13.2 Wild Animals 13.3 Weather 13.4 Mushrooms 13.5 Snow 13.6 Getting lost 13.7 What do you in case of accident 14 Mountain clubs

Planning a trip

Route

Try to plan a route according accessible to the people involve in it. Some paths can be scary to some people that are not use to it or for people that is afraid to heights. In that case, ask them. If your are not very used to hiking try to choose frequented areas and trailed paths. Some path are really well tracked and have many signs.As a exemple:

* Long way paths acrros catalonia Xarxa de senders de gran recorregut

Timing

Try to plan a trip acording to the time you have and the people involve it. Remember that the major cost in time is gap uphill and downhill. Try to calculate the overall gap. For a person that is not trained think as 3-4 hours every 1000m high. In the spring, summer and early autumn storms are more likely to happen after 3-5 p.m. Try to be at your destination after that time. (wake up early!). Waking up early is safer and will also avoid the major heat of the day during the warm months.

Not to forget

• Maps
• Money
• Keys
• Skin protector (In the mountains there are more UVA ray! Than means skin cancer danger specially for white skin people!!)
• Lip balm
• Hat
• Water recipient
• Food
• Warm clothes (remember every 1000m the temperature descends around 6ºC!)
• Extra clothes (what happens if you get wet? Put your extra clothes on a plastic bag so you can keep the dry!)
• Sleeping bag (Put your sleeping bag on a plastic bag so you can keep the dry!)

Planning a meeting

If you would like to extend a plan and make it a meeting for CouchSurfing community in Barcelona:

• There is a group called Hiking around Catalonia!, post it there: http://www.couchsurfing.com/groups.html

csgroup:17983

• Post it also in Barcelona generic group: http://www.couchsurfing.com/groups.html

csgroup:497

• Post it ahead, like between 4-2 weeks.
• Post it with detail information: when, where, how you get there, how much it costs, level of the hike, what people needs to bring...

Where to get maps and hikes

You can find a lot of information on GRs (long distance trails) and PR (short ones) in la Federació d'Entitats Excursionistes de Catalunya feec. Look for Senders (trails) and choose the comarca (areas, you can check them here [1] and just explore the paths over there.

Catalan orography

Weather Information

Its really important to check the weather before!

Weather in Catalonia

Public transport

Train

You can check on Cercanias/Rodalies around Catalunya here: Rodalies Barcelona

or middle distance ones: middle

Buses

Sometimes trains doesnt get to certain spots, its then when buses become useful! Note that its always better to get to places by train because they are normally lots cheaper for short distances..

Some companies.. Alsa Sarfa Hispano Igualadina

Taxis

Share car

Where to sleep

Info on mountain refuges Refuges

Mountain youth hostels Mountain youth hostels

Some camping places camping

The water

Fires

Beahaviour on the mountains

Top 20 places(the most popular ones)

• Tibidabo
• La Mola(Sant Llorenç del Munt)
• Montcau(Sant Llorenç del Munt)
• Matagalls (Montseny)
• Les agudes (Montseny)
• Sant Jeroni(Montserrat)
• Puigsacalm
• Taga (Prepirineu oriental)
• Puigmal(Pirineu oriental)
• Montcaro(Ports de Beseit)
• La mussara (Prades)
• Perdraforca (Pirineu central)
• Serra del cadí (Pririneu central)
• Puigpedrós (Pririneu central)
• Comapedrosa (Andorra)
• Canigó (Pirineu oriental francés)
• Montsec (Prepirineu occidental)
• Montsent del pallars(Pirineu occidental)
• Pica d'estats(Pirineu occidental)
• Aneto(Pirineu aragonés)

The most beautifull places

Cautions, safe hiking

Dangers

Wild Animals

Weather

Mushrooms

Snow

Getting lost

What do you in case of accident

Mountain clubs

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