Saturday 03/29/2008 (6:00)
are the 6 am and we Sergi, Dani and a server in Mataró ready to jump on the car and head to the Collada de Fontalba, where we will start a route to the Pic de Puigmal of Segre. After a careful
when we travel Ribes, and make a stop at a bar located at the entrance of the village, roadside. It is a popular bar for much of the "fauna" mountain (hikers, hunters, bikers .....). The coffee and chocolate paste, we quiet the little purr of our guts, and of course, took the opportunity to drop ballast. "
half an hour we set off towards Queralbs, until you reach the train line that goes up to Nuria. Continue the road a few hundred yards on the right starts the road, which later becomes a forest trail that leads us to the pass of Fontalba. As we approach the pass, we saw clapas ice.
's almost 9 am, and we are in the Collada de Fontalba (2,074 m). A little air, but the sun softens the temperature.
Ahead of us get a group of 3 people in the same direction, which is a reference. We started walking towards the NW, on the Pla de les dues Lliure, with a mild slope, but having traversed about 400 meters, started a small Repechón, which makes us warm up quickly, at the end of what we take to make a short stop (2,200 m), and do the first photos (retrieve oxygen). In this short stretch we reach the other group and advanced, but to stop them hit us, when they took the opportunity to exchange a few words, (where we were going, "we thought we would do worse time," there are hardly any snow ".... .). True, so far only saw some clapas snow, but otherwise everything was green. 
continued walking towards the N direction of Dou Cim (2.471mts), following a "phytes" but the truth is that no loss has to walk toward the north (as straight as possible if you good legs, or zig zag, if you do not have.) In this installment, we take to pass through the midst of the few clapas snow we see, taking advantage from the beginning we put the leggings. 
come to the hill of Fontalba (1.300mts 2.450mts and travel) and stopped to watch the next segment that we expected, a sharp rise of 200 m of altitude in just 800 mts of course, not ramble and we set off to meet them. In this section breaks loose Sergi of us, and begins a brutal break (when we return we will remove the roll having to bike home.) Meanwhile, Dani and I go up and chatting, making our air paraditas to recover, and "xino hexane, we reached the top. Now we have the last 100 meters to reach the Puigmal (2910 meters) of which, much pass in the snow (it starts to get interesting).
It's 10 am and "fem cim" (4,200 m run). Sergi takes time waiting, but have no objection to us to stop our photos and eat something (bars, as no).
The view from the Puigmal is fantastic, we have a clear day and we can see the whole pot (set of mountains that surround the Vall de Nuria). We see that there is a lot more snow than we imagined at the start, therefore making us happy.
We return to get moving towards the col d'Er (2.750mts), making a impressive decline in the snow, especially Dani, who specializes in this sort of thing (although run down fall.) There are times when you sink into the snow legs below the knee (which last !!!!!!).
From the pass we got into Puigmal Petit de Segre (2.812mts) and hence the Puigmal de Segre (2.846mts) by an edge clapas rock and ice, which began to dent Dani because of their shoes, some trekking appropriate for raids, not gripping well on the ice and caused several major slips. As can be seen in the photo, part of Puigmal approaching a front of clouds importantly, even with the hope that would not reach us, due to wind blowing towards the east, we decided to go down the middle of the mountain, taking advantage of the snow that covered it, and thus cut way , and go as soon as possible to her skirt.
The fall was full of falls, faux leg to the knee and stretches where we lay down and slid through the snow, as if we had a sled (we are like children). On reaching the valley, we find the ideal setting for
stop to eat something. Great images leaving the river to pass between the snow and they were enlivened by the sound of water coming down with joy (how nice !!!!). Once fed, we set off towards the Vall de Nuria, with a light step, we arrive in just over 20 minutes.
Lake of the Vall de Nuria was quite cool, you could skate on it, which he did remember the typical American movie where a group of children playing
over a frozen lake, and suddenly it was torn apart , causing one of the children fall into the icy water and submerged under the ice, while his friends desperate start to scream, attracting the attention of an adult who is eating hamburgers with the rest of the parents .....( better leave it here). continue the path towards Fontalba, which begins past the lake on the right (like the bathroom). It begins with a steep climb a little long. This last section is 4.5 km, with ups and downs of + -100 meters of altitude, but in our case we added the icing, most of the road was muddy, and parts that still enduring the ice it became an ally of the slips. As we walked, the weather was getting worse, little
a bit of a heavy fog was covering us, to the point of view no more than 5 feet away. All this set of circumstances coupled with the desire to get to the car, we brought a sense of despair, we became increasingly longer, but finally we reached our final destination, La Collada de Fontalba, where we hoped our car, totally alone, without other cars with which to talk (what a shame!). Regards, and until next time.
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