Boí
Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park (Catalan: Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, Spanish: Parque Nacional de Aiguestortes y el Lago San Mauricio) is one of the fourteen Spanish National Parks, the second in the Pyrenees and the only one in Catalonia.
A wild mountain region in the Pyrenees, with peaks rising to 3,017 m (Besiberri Sud) and with nearly 200 lakes, many of them of glacial origin, the park comprises the core area (141 km²) and a peripheral or buffer zone surrounding the park (267 km²).
The park has an elevation range from 1,600 to 3,000 metres and contains four major vegetation zones: lower montane, upper montane, subalpine and alpine. It has a great variety of alpine vegetation, including dark-coniferous mountain forest (fir, mountain pine) and subalpine pine forest.
The fauna includes Pyrenean chamois, marmot, ermine, roe deer, among other mammals and numerous birds (Black Woodpecker, Common Crossbill, Lammergeier, Golden Eagle).
The park was created in 1955 after Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, first spanish National Park in the Pyrenees in 1918. Its administrative seats are in Espot and Boí. The park is mainly located in the comarques of Pallars Sobirà and Alta Ribagorça.
(Wikipedia)
-----
Pyrenees in early spring are a completely magic place: empty, silent, with spring blossoms in its lower parts and still with amounts of snow covering the peaks and upper areas.
We did a nice hike from the village of Boí to the Lake Llong and back; whereas spring was already at its best in the valleys, the upper part of the path was still covered by snow, causing an unusual but lovely hiking combination.
Here the view is taken at the very beginning of our hike, in the village of Boí.
Boí
Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici National Park (Catalan: Parc Nacional d'Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, Spanish: Parque Nacional de Aiguestortes y el Lago San Mauricio) is one of the fourteen Spanish National Parks, the second in the Pyrenees and the only one in Catalonia.
A wild mountain region in the Pyrenees, with peaks rising to 3,017 m (Besiberri Sud) and with nearly 200 lakes, many of them of glacial origin, the park comprises the core area (141 km²) and a peripheral or buffer zone surrounding the park (267 km²).
The park has an elevation range from 1,600 to 3,000 metres and contains four major vegetation zones: lower montane, upper montane, subalpine and alpine. It has a great variety of alpine vegetation, including dark-coniferous mountain forest (fir, mountain pine) and subalpine pine forest.
The fauna includes Pyrenean chamois, marmot, ermine, roe deer, among other mammals and numerous birds (Black Woodpecker, Common Crossbill, Lammergeier, Golden Eagle).
The park was created in 1955 after Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park, first spanish National Park in the Pyrenees in 1918. Its administrative seats are in Espot and Boí. The park is mainly located in the comarques of Pallars Sobirà and Alta Ribagorça.
(Wikipedia)
-----
Pyrenees in early spring are a completely magic place: empty, silent, with spring blossoms in its lower parts and still with amounts of snow covering the peaks and upper areas.
We did a nice hike from the village of Boí to the Lake Llong and back; whereas spring was already at its best in the valleys, the upper part of the path was still covered by snow, causing an unusual but lovely hiking combination.
Here the view is taken at the very beginning of our hike, in the village of Boí.