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Odoakr wrote:Hallo! Probably I will be in Spain, Gerona in the beginning of December! I know that it is not very interesting part of the year, but i would like to do a small trekking in the Pyreneis. Could you recomend me any mountain area? Maybe there is any interesting peak over 3000 m that i can reach using only basic winter trekking stuff (crampones, rope and ice axe)...
Thanks!

Hi,

Have you had a look the pages of Pirineos area? I think this is the closer mountains you can trek, and you have a lot of pages and info of the area. You can contact the authors too if you a doubth.

I could suggest you this area very near Gerona
http://www.summitpost.org/area/range/240731/Montserrat.html

The nearest 3000 that you can climb from Girona is Pica d'Estats
http://www.summitpost.org/mountain/rock/222830/pica-d-estats.html, the highest mountain of Cataluña (Catalonia). It's a very interesting climb, easy by the normal way, from south face (province of Lérida-Lleida). You will see pine forest, glacier lakes and surely snow or ice in december. You can follow the GR-11, marked by red and white marks to do an additional trekking.
If you want books and maps about Pyrenees, you can visit this link of Desnivel: http://www.desnivel.es
Regards

December it's a hard season to climbs peaks over 3000m generally in Pyrenees. The ascension of a long route as Pica d'estats is very very long in snow-conditions.

Perhaps Canigou area is better for December weather conditions than choosing a 3000er

Why dont go to Andorra and follow part of the GRP, Gran Recorrido Pais, a nice route which turns around that small country. Well marked and with many huts on route:

http://www.andorra.ad/ang/gaudeix_andorra/oci_esports/senderisme.asp#mapa

Odoakr may be in Spain already