---
title: Picos de Europa
date: 2025-10-25
license: "CC-BY-SA:4.0"
comments: true
icon: 🏔️
cover: ./images/20250527_125228.jpg
tags: ["picos-de-europa", "spain", "hiking", "travel"]
---

Unsorted pictures from our hike through the Picos de Europa.

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## May 27th

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import image16 from "images/PXL_20250527_101057540.MP.jpg";
import image17 from "images/PXL_20250527_100728883.jpg";

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  <Image src={image1} alt="A cow on a meadow in front of the sea" />
  <Image
    src={image17}
    alt="A person on flysch rock in front of a cave at the sea"
  />
  <Image
    src={image16}
    alt="A person in a cave from which you can see the sea"
  />
</ImageSlider>

## May 28th

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import image19 from "images/20250528_164715.jpg";

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  <Image src={image15} alt="Us after the first 300 meters" />
  <Image
    src={image19}
    alt="Many mountain goats that like to lick the salt from the skin"
  />
</ImageSlider>

## May 29th

Hard ascent

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import image12 from "images/PXL_20250530_082919731.jpg";
import image13 from "images/PXL_20250529_201559403.jpg";

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<Image alt="" src={image12} alt="Finally arrived at the Refugio" />

## May 30-31

Thunderstorm and rest day

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import image10 from "images/PXL_20250530_135631186.MP.jpg";
import image8 from "images/PXL_20250530_170114907.MP.jpg";
import image9 from "images/PXL_20250530_141432767.jpg";
import image18 from "images/IMG-20250531-WA0020.jpeg";

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  <Image src={image11} alt="Departure to the mountains" />
  <Image
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    alt="Surprisingly saved under the tarp after a thunderstorm"
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  <Image src={image9} alt="Second departure to the mountains" />
  <Image src={image8} alt="Waiting for the second thunderstorm" />
  <Image src={image18} alt="Arrival at the Refugio" />
</ImageSlider>

## June 1st

We continue as a pair.

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import image5 from "images/PXL_20250601_082528934.jpg";
import image2 from "images/PXL_20250601_132646197.jpg";

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  <Image src={image4} alt="First ascent-done, about 1000 meters in altitude" />
  <Image src={image5} alt="In the middle of the mountain basin" />
  <Image src={image3} alt="On the descent" />
  <Image src={image2} alt="Immersed in the fog" />
</ImageSlider>

## June 2nd

Tarping in the forest and wet-hiking then drying out in the hotel room

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## June 3rd

Ascent to lofty heights

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import image23 from "images/PXL_20250603_093606665.jpg";
import image25 from "images/PXL_20250603_194635918.jpg";
import image26 from "images/PXL_20250603_194636284.jpg";

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  <Image src={image22} alt="The ascent was completely in the fog" />
  <Image src={image23} alt="Then came the first snowfields" />
  <Image src={image25} alt="Arrived at the Refugio" />
  <Image src={image26} alt="Our camp for the night" />
</ImageSlider>

## June 4th

Overnight stay at Refugio Los Cabrones

## June 5th

Final-descent

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<Image alt="" src={image27} alt="The last walk down the mountain" />
