Pico Arieiro-Pico Ruivo and a nightmare
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 14.12 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,564 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Experts only
- Elevation loss
- 4,606 ft
- Max elevation
- 6,073 ft
- TrailRank
- 28
- Min elevation
- 4,932 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Moving time
- 3 hours 43 minutes
- Time
- 10 hours 29 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2876
- Uploaded
- September 27, 2021
- Recorded
- September 2021
near Curral das Freiras, Madeira (Portugal)
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Itinerary description
Would recommend to take the standard PR1 route. Impossible to go via VE: there is one place where the path literally has fallen down and there is no way to cross. We have also tried the other way and in the beginning the path was with fallen rocks, but ok. Few hundred meters away we found quite a lot of bushes growing on the path. We took the challenge, but we were not able to follow the official path anymore - trees and bushes were everywhere. In order to avoid the spiky “thing” we tried to climb the mountain using flora, but couldn’t finish it and had to go back to the main road.
Waypoints
Dead-end street
5,164 ft
Flora
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I successfuly passed thru "nightmare" (it is passable) - but it was REAL nightmare and even nasty fog came from the valley...
Did you use machete to pass through the bushes? How did you pass the section with the spikes?