Riscos de Villarejo

Overview

Also denominated "Riscos del Tío Pasito", it is a mountain of granitic rock located in the solid oriental of the Sierra of Gredos. It is part of the denominated Sierra de Villarejo thats understands from the cliffs of the Puerto del Pico (El Torozo) until the Puerto of Serranillos.  The Riscos de Villarejo are located concretely in the slope S.O. of the Summit of the Morenos ones (1.878 m) between the Collado del Boquerón and the Port of Serranillos, being part of the head of the Gta. of the Placejo and in the finish municipal of Villarejo del Valle.  It is a group of towers and needles that present excellent possibilities for the escalade, with routes of 150 and 200 meters of longitude on a magnify granite.  They highlight among other their three main summits: The Aguja de las Cuatro Puntas, Risco Gordo or Punta del Boquerón and the Torre de Villarejo.  This escalade area is one of those but well-known in the Iberian peninsula together with Los Galayos and El Torozo.

Getting There

To access to this mountain we will have to arrive until the Puerto del Pico,  located in the km 55 of the national highway 502 in Avila, once there we will lower for the forest road that there is in the curve of Villarejo. You also consents in a way but direct to this mountain from San Esteban's town, ascending approximately for the highway that drives to the Port of Serranillos, to 1 km of the port in the first curve of the road, a road that will take us in 30 or 45 minutes to the base of the walls after the hill that descends of Los Morenos ones, going back leaves.  

From Madrid: 
By car: 
By the N-V until Talavera de la Reina we take the deviation for Arenas de San Pedro’s c-502 direction until arriving to Ramacastañas, where we continue to the right until arriving to La Villa de Mombeltran,  where we will take the first deviation to the right that takes us to San Esteban, where we will continue for the highway of the Serranillos port until arriving to a one km of the port..
By bus: 
Company La Sepulvedana. daily buses (13,67 € go and turn). from the south station of buses 

This bus leaves us in Arenas de San Pedro where taken another that takes us to Cuevas del Valle and San Esteban. ( price note 1 € single going. ) 

Schedules of friday. For other days to consult in 91-5304800 or in  www.lasepulvedana.es. 
Once in Cuevas del Valle we will go up walking for the roman roadway or taken a taxi until the Puerto del Pico. 

From Avila: 
By car: 
For C-502 o'clock directly until the Puerto del Pico. 
By bus: 
Company Muñoz travel. from the bus station of Avila. We descend in Puerto del Pico, and we will lower for the forest road of Villarejo.

Red Tape

Forbidden the one camped free. One can make vibouac in the sources that there is going up the Puerto de Serranillos and in the base of the mountain. Loose animals cannot be taken. Certain roads cannot be climbed in time of breeding of birds (the forest guard of the area will inform us) and mainly NOT TO LEAVE GARBAGE, to maintain the clean mountain.

When To Climb

The best time in the year to climb this mountain is the one understood between the months of May and October, although this I finish September it is the suitable one for the escalade due to the absence of rains and to the soft temperatures.

 Gradient of temperatures:

Camping

Camping site of Prados Abiertos. Second category. Open the whole year. Located in the C-502, km. 72. Tf: 920386061. Of extension 2,5 km2, good situation, calm place, terraces, Floor something hard with grass, Many hoist, Natural bathroom to 1 km.

In the mountain this forbidden the one camped free. We can sleep outdoors in the base of the mountain. (bivouacs).

Foremost peaks in the area

• LA CABRILLA (1.948 m / 6.391 ft)
• RISCO DE LAS MORILLAS (1.998 m / 6.555 ft)
• PUERTO DEL PEÓN (2.051 m / 6.729 ft)
• LA CASA ( 1.845 m / 6.053 ft)
• PEÑA DEL MEDIODIA ( 2.224 m / 7.296 ft)
• LA MIRA (2.341 m / 7.680 ft)
• LOS GALAYOS ( 2.216 m / 7.270 ft)
• El TOROZO (2.026 m / 6.646 ft)
• SERRANILLOS

Maps and sketches

Climbing routes

The same as their neighboring mountain, "El Torozo", this mountain presents enormous possibilities as for the escalade in rock, offering numerous routes of different difficulties and heights. 
In this section we will describe each one of the needles or picks that understand this mountain with a chart of their respective routes, which will go accompanied by an explanatory graph of these, which will call you the same as the chart in question

TORRE DE VILLAREJO CARA SUR

AGUJA DE LAS 4 PUNTAS. WEST FACE

AGUJA DE LOS MORENOS. South FACE

AGUJA DE LOS MORENOS. South-West FACE

2ª AGUJA DE LOS MORENOS. South FACE

AGUJA DE LOS CALIFAS

PUNTA AMPARO

PUNTA SOLEDAD

EL YELMITO. South FACE

Different climbing degrees in rock. Conversion factors

This is a brief description of the different climbing degrees according to different countries and their conversion factors. A road is delimited according to a scale of very precise difficulty. The different difficulties appear as the escalade evolves sportly. Each school, each country has elaborated its own scale of difficulties that can translate himself in a scale of degrees. However it is not necessary to follow this scale with all accuracy, the gradation of an escalade road is not but that an evaluation of the wall, therefore this means in it finishes instance it is to the climber's service.

 

It will be of great utility the following internet link, where besides being able to see the different escalade degrees in the different scales, we will have an explanation of each one of the scales as well as a dictionary of escalade terms.

"Climbing dictionary and climbing ratings and grades"

Related books

1.- La Sierra de Gredos
ISBN: 8487746446
Author: Gabriel Martín
Date: 1994
Editorial: Desnivel
Price: 11,00 €
Language: Spanish

2.- Crónicas de Gredos
ISBN: 490000
Author: Juan Andrés Feliú Suárez
Price: 18,21 €
Language: Spanish

3.- Cuadernos de Montaña
ISBN: 8484600165
Author: Eduardo Martínez de Pisón
Date: 2000
Editorial: Temas de Hoy
Price: 14,42 €
Language: Spanish

4.- Gredos. Guía de excursiones y ascensiones.
ISBN: 8495368110
Author: Carlos Frías
Date: 2001
Editorial: El senderista
Price: 16,50 €
Language: Spanish

5.-Guía de la Sierra de Gredos
ISBN: 100001
Author: M.A. Vidal
Price: 7,81 €
Language: Spanish

6.- Rutas para descubrir la Sierra de Gredos
ISBN: 8481830747
Author: Carlos Manuel Martín Jiménez
Date: 2000
Editorial: Ámbito Viejo
Price: 9,62 €
Language: Spanish

Some History

Have probably been climbers of Arenas de San Pedro the first ones in traveling these summits for their steps but difficult, opening some roads of little difficulty (via Rituerto - Feliú, in the Punta primavera). It will be starting from the seventy when the itineraries of difficulty appear, such as the road Mary Paz, Coney Island, Esteban Altieri,..., opened up by Santiago Pino, Luis Martín, Francisco Aguado and Juan Lupión. The same as in the Torozo, the explendor time arrives with the eighty, where there they are given appointment the best national climbers as Pedro Nicolás, Emilio G. Viel, Santiago Hernández, Daniel Guirles, Miguel Castilla, Luis Fernando Cajal, Fernando Pinar, Manuel Marchal and mainly Gabriel Martín for its intense work in the team of laqs roads and in its graph.

External Links

• Grupo Gredos de Montaña
  Interesting web to practice activities in Sierra de Gredos, rock climbing, routes and diferents expeditions
  
  
• Arenas de San Pedro
  Mountaneering section in this Arenas de San Pedro's council web.
  
• Junta de Castilla y León
  Hotels, Campings and interesting telephones of Gredos
  

Images

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