This option is longer (approx. 7 hours) but avoids the technical climbing steps required by going via Tiro Callejo. Remember that in any case it is still a route through high mountain terrain, subject to imponderables that may appear at any time

Route: Linking traverse from the southern slope (Cantabria) to Naranjo de Bulnes, connecting the cable car station with the most famous refuge of the Picos de Europa

MOST IMPORTANT WARNING: This route has been descatalogued as PR (Pequeño Recorrido). The reason is its extreme hardness and the tremendous slope. It is a high mountain route reserved for very prepared people. In the absence of a new name, the old one is still used.

• Type: Linear
• Distance and duration: 17.7 km / 8 hours and 20 minutes
• Level: 2,044
• Difficulty: High

Profile: Very steep and hard climb. Start in the Cares: You leave Poncebos (200 m) and enter the famous Path of the Cares. You will walk for quite a while on this flat/false flat route until you reach the area of Culiembro (445 m).

Pandiello - El Javar - Tebrandi route

Parking in Arenas de Cabrales

Level:550 m - Difficulty: Good trails, moderate - Approximate duration: 3 hours

Description:

We start from Arenas through the Jaces gate and crossing the farm we reach the Boronas trail, a place where a forest of oaks and chestnut trees begins, crossed by the Vau Ranu stream, which we will cross by a cement bridge; 50 m from this bridge there is a crossroads, but we will continue straight ahead to the Naveda huts.