Bony d'Arquer

Good ascent to do from the end of spring, summer, and autumn. In winter, from 1800 mts. we will have to expect lots of snow, so we will avoid the days straight after snowing, and if we go we will well prepared.

We recomend to first check the weather forecast as the weather difference between the lowest point (Caregue) and the higest (Bony d’Arquer) can be considerable.

This circuit is ideal for vertical trainings and rythm changes as we climb. The distance and level changes fo this circuit will allow us to recover to return the next day. We will enjoy very special views once we get to Bony d’Arquer, with a majestic horizon showing us the Montsent de Pallars, Montorroio, Mainera, or further away, the Massis of La Pica d’Estats, the Comapedrosa, and the Monteixo. And as we begin the descent we will see the haughty Orri peak and the impressive Assua valley.

If we want, we can make the return by the track Mainera-Caregue; is a much longer route where you can comfortably run until the starting point.

The circuit starts between pastures and abandoned terraces and carrys on between meadows, woods, and a very alpine stretch at the end, arriving at the peak up a vertiginous shadow anda channel at the end tahat wont let us breathe until the summit.

When leaving Caregue, the track quickly climbs up the streets of the village following the path that would take us to the Mare de Deu de la Muntanya hermitage. We will quickly leave this path and take a not very obvious breaking between the terraces. With no rest we will continue up the water breaking of the Serra d’Arquer, always in a constant climb, furst up meadows, then into the Mata de Caregue, a very dense and unspoiled woods, to arrive at the most alpine stretch of the track, we can now just oversee the peak far away, where we will arrive between alpine meadows, grass channels and one last edgy stretch.