You have to try to go back to the places where nature has rejected you or has tried to confuse you. A wrong way, threatening storm clouds or an unexpected mishap are only a aside, a few steps postponed for an undated day. This should be in the mountain, where enjoyment is not bought with any entry and the show is not always guaranteed. And there lies, largely, Much of its appeal.
A few years ago, The crossing of a ravine at the wrong time had moved me away from the Sierra de la Estive, an exceptional balcony between the valleys of Aísa and Aragüés del Puerto, in Pyrenees Oscese. We end up on a minor summit of the southern foothills of that mountain range, When what we intended was the opposite, Tour it from El Collado del Bozo, natural step between both valleys. We had a few pending footsteps and that fiasco had to be redeemed.
You have to try to go back to the places where nature has rejected you or has tried to confuse you
From Jaca, You have to drive more than an hour in the direction of fact and take a diversion to the right to the Aragüés del Puerto. This last town is also left behind, Continuing along the road to the Lizara refuge, starting point for ascension to one of the giants of the western Pyrenees: the Bisaurin, one mole of 2.670 meters that I uploaded many years ago and that left me the memory of an exhausting Pedriza Cimera, of those in which it is convenient not to look too up so as not to succumb to discouragement, From the hill of the Foratón.
But from the Lizara shelter (1.520 meters) We do not take the way to the bisaurin, but the opposite, that travels the background ski slopes, A very nice beginning before facing the uninterrupted ascent to the hill. The reference is now a house of shepherds (With a dog with very bad fleas that advises not to get a lot to avoid surprises) that we leave on our right, ascending by a hill until we have the ARTICUSE BARRANCO, where on the previous occasion we perpetrated our error crossing it and leaving it behind us in the southern direction.
The Sierra de la Estiva is a wide -herbous Loma like the belly of a stuffed animal that offers no difficulty
This time, however, We are prevented, And we continue on the marked path (What clarity the mistakes are seen once committed!) Leaving the ravine to the right, Where a stream runs, Between numerous water jumps, that now goes dry. The climb from here is constant and not too demanding, Although with sun can become cumbersome. We ascend at a good pace and in an hour we have reached the Collado del Bozo (2.019 meters), With the reward of the stone coliseum, Hurtado partly by the clouds, Of the peaks that support the imposing Aspe, The Candanchú emblem: Flat of the Bozo and Llana de la Groganta, both touching the 2.600. To the east the BARDO DEL CUBILAR and, below, The Aísa Valley, Tour of the Estarrún River, From here a slight silver tape by the shy sun rays.
With such aerial views you expect a stony saw with the occasional exposed step, But the Sierra de la Estive is the opposite: A broad Herbous Loma like the belly of a stuffed animal that offers no difficulty to the mountaineer and gives him, however, A soft walk without shocks and unpayable views. Peace in the heights. Before progressing peacefully through the mountains, you have to descend a few meters to save a rock area attached to the hill that, outdated, Leaves us to a step away from Pico del Bozo (2.128 meters), Recognizable by the characteristic milestone of stones, and, 15 minutes later, At the top of Petrito (2.135 meters).
It is an exceptional and peaceful viewpoint between the valleys of Aísa and Aragüés del Puerto
The path now loses height until it reaches a small hill from which it rises to the peak of Mesola (2.177 meters), The highest of the three, A pyramid crowned by a mantle of rocks, The Armor of Tops With Pedigrí. We continue to walk to a milestone from stones from which a harmless meadow allows to attack, I calculate that in just over twenty minutes, The last meters of the third summit.
But, We decided not to continue because the clouds are being thrown from France and we want to return along the same path (There is the possibility of trying a journey through the Napazal ravine Until the aisa track, But this option requires having left a car there to pick up the second in Lizara). We conform, therefore, With a lone lunch in this exceptional viewpoint between two valleys. When we walk again through the articles ravine, The Sierra de la Estive is already covered by the clouds and we are glad to have turned on time. In just over an hour, Descending at a good pace, We reach the Lizara shelter.
