Spain 2023, Day 8, Ruta del Cares

Probably the most famous walk in the Picos. This is a 22km in total there and back again walk from Poncebos to Cain.

From Wikipedia "The Cares Trail or Ruta del Cares is one of the most popular trekking paths within the Picos de Europa, the route is situated between the province of León and Asturias, in Spain. It runs from the Asturian village of Puente Poncebos to Posada de Valdeón through Caín in Leon along the Cares Canyon. In the old times, the route was the only way to reach both towns during the snow seasons in the winter.
The Cares Trail was first opened in the mountain rock along the Cares river's canyon between the years of 1916 and 1921 to provide maintenance, food and supplies to the hydroelectric powerplant of Camarmeña - Poncebos; It was later improved and expanded between 1945 and 1950. "

We had attempted this once before about 15 years ago but were not properly prepared for the heat. The weird thing is that it can be cool on the coast in Asturias but once you start getting high and above the cloud it warms up. We simply realised that we didn't have enough water

This time it was far better as we knew what we were doing and were far better prepared and found ourselves chuckling at the ingénues from all those years ago, needless to say we enjoyed it immensely. The scale has to be seen to be believed and a photo can't really do it justice.

Goats all over the place as well hence the extra.