2 days Naranjo de Bulnes guided rock climbing, Picos de Europa

In the heart of the Picos de Europa range, a huge area of wild limestone peaks and deep gorges, stands Spain’s most famous mountain, the Naranjo de Bulnes (2519m). Locally known as Picu Urriellu, it’s an imposing tower with magnificent multi-pitch routes on its four faces, ranging from about 4b to 8c+.

These massive walls gather stunning lines on good to perfect rock, from 5-6 pitches (250m) up to over 20+ pitches (750m), being also home to the first modern climb in spanish alpinism, when Pedro Pidal and Gregorio Pérez, El Cainejo, dare to venture through the dizzying north face in 1904 and subsequently climbed down by the same route!

We offer you the chance to climb this iconic mountain in a 2-day program, chosing between one of its four faces. Some of the most recommended routes would be:

• South Face’s Directa de los Martínez. The easiest and most popular route to get to the top, with perfect rock and mostly IV graded with a short section of V, 175m long + 150m of scrambling.

• **North Face’s Pidal-Cainejo.**The route followed by the pioneers in 1904, 450m long and V-, is a route worth climbing. Makes you wonder how they could climb and downclimb this wall more than a century ago with their primitive gear.

• **East Face’s Cepeda.**A classic climb that goes through right to left, smartly avoiding the hardest sections of this face. A short bouldery crux goes on 6a but the overall difficulties go on the V/V+ grade on most of its 350m.

• East Face’s Amistad con el Diablo. It’s name refers to the classic Rolling Stones Sympathy for the Devil song and its 220 m and V+ difficulties stand on excellent and beautiful rock, directly following the central part of the intimidating East Face, to join Cepeda above.

• Increasing the length and difficulty of the climb we can choose routes like Sagitario (200m, 6b), Leiva (550m, 7b), Murciana (550m, 7c+) or the legendary Rabadá-Navarro (750m, 6c), all on the West Face, which can be aided on the most difficult sections.

Located in Northern Spain, the Picos de Europa range features a lot more beyond Naranjo de Bulnes, tons of peaks and walls with endless climbing potential and classic climbs in all sort of styles, sizes and difficulties: Horcados Rojos, Peña Olvidada, Peña Santa, Torre Cerredo or Peña Vieja to name just a few.

This programme is an amazing opportunity to climb Spain’s most famous peak and to discover Northern Spain spectacular landscapes, while enjoying a great and varied gastronomic offer, with the possibility of enjoying nearby beaches on rest days.

Please note you need some previous climbing experience and a good fitness level to join this ascent.

Don’t miss out on this unique opportunity to conquer Naranjo de Bulnes. Send me a request to book this trip and venture yourself into an enjoyable ascent with spectacular views of the Picos de Europa range! Longer climbing trips and other Picos de Europa peaks or walls are available on request.