---
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

First day, arrival at the sea.

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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"/>
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## May 28th

First day of hiking

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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"/>
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## May 29th

Hard ascent

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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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  <Image src={image11} alt="Departure to the mountains"/>
  <Image src={image10} alt="Surprisingly saved under the tarp after a thunderstorm"/>
  <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"/>
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## June 1st

We continue as a pair.

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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"/>
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## 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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  <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"/>
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## June 4th

Overnight stay at Refugio Los Cabrones

## June 5th

Final-descent

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