Red weather alert for Vadiniese tomorrow. Can anyone help?

[unadara]

I am in Fuente De the cable car is closed for 3 days due to weather alerts. I hope to walk tomorrow to Portilla De Reina. Could I walk? Or must I get a Taxi if available?
Thanks Una
Ps I could have walked it today a day ahead of plan but the Parador was booked and paid for.

 

[Peterexpatkiwi]

The cable car will be closed because of the wind. Otherwise the weather seems fairly good. Have you asked the locals for advice?

 

[unadara]

The cable car will be closed because of the wind. Otherwise the weather seems fairly good. Have you asked the locals for advice?

Thanks Peter yes it’s wind , and rain!
there isn’t anyone here who knows the Way (though I’m not sure)!
and my language skills aren’t up to much.

 

[Liica]

I am in Fuente De the cable car is closed for 3 days due to weather alerts. I hope to walk tomorrow to Portilla De Reina. Could I walk? Or must I get a Taxi if available?
Thanks Una
Ps I could have walked it today a day ahead of plan but the Parador was booked and paid for.

Attention. Hurricane Kirk passing near Spain on the next days. Please check aemet website for detailed infos.

https://www.aemet.es/documentos_d/enportada/20241007132029_p52tesp1.pdf

 

[Tincatinker]

I am in Fuente De the cable car is closed for 3 days due to weather alerts. I hope to walk tomorrow to Portilla De Reina. Could I walk? Or must I get a Taxi if available?
Thanks Una
Ps I could have walked it today a day ahead of plan but the Parador was booked and paid for.

It’s about 27km and it’ll be rough weather but it’s doable. The cable car doesn’t really save any distance, just the climb. Follow the waymarked Vadiniense. The track goes via the Invernales de las Berrugas. Any of the locals should be able to point you to the start. It’s mostly 4WD track. Navigation shouldn’t be difficult but if you have the GPS tracks use them. Mapy.cz has the track marked.

It is a great hike but the weather tomorrow will take some of the shine off.

 

[unadara]

It’s about 27km and it’ll be rough weather but it’s doable. The cable car doesn’t really save any distance, just the climb. Follow the waymarked Vadiniense. The track goes via the Invernales de las Berrugas. Any of the locals should be able to point you to the start. It’s mostly 4WD track. Navigation shouldn’t be difficult but if you have the GPS tracks use them. Mapy.cz has the track marked.

It is a great hike but the weather tomorrow will take some of the shine off.

Thanks. I was on the route today, know exactly where it goes. My cable car trip was just a “day off Camino”, I think the worst weather is moving to Wed. Unfortunately I don’t do maps or the like but I’ll be fine with route finding! Thanks for all help. Hope I get to see some views, my Hospitales route this year was a Wash out…

 

[Tincatinker]

Thanks. I was on the route today, know exactly where it goes. My cable car trip was just a “day off Camino”, I think the worst weather is moving to Wed. Unfortunately I don’t do maps or the like but I’ll be fine with route finding! Thanks for all help. Hope I get to see some views, my Hospitales route this year was a Wash out…

I’d strongly recommend a map for the high Picos stretch of the Vadiniense. You’ll be up in karst limestone country, landscapes can get very “interesting”. It’s easy to drift in poor visibility and a b*gger to get back on trail once you’re off.

Many.cz is free and, with reasonable WiFi you can download the maps for Northern Spain in a couple of minutes. The GPS is accurate, it will show your actual position even with your phone in airplane mode. Just put Portilla de la Reina in as your destination and follow the blue dot if needed

 

[unadara]

Have done as suggested and my Mapy.cz. Is ready to go. Muchas gracias. And I’ve enjoyed reading all your posts incl most recent! Was it swan song?

 

[peregrina2000]

I’m sorry to hear about the weather alert. I hope you stay safe. The route from Fuente Dé to Portilla de la Reina does not go back up to the heights of where the Fuente Dé cable car goes. The trail is very smooth, a wide track that you could drive on, and only about 300 m elevation gain between Fuente Dé and the Port/Puerto of Pandetrave, where the Picos part of tomorrow’s walk to Portilla de la Reina ends.

I think it was Rebekah who told me that this trail from Fuente Dé (called the Senda da Remoña) is so well graded and widened because there were actually plans to pave a road between the two points. That obviously, and thankfully, never happened. From the Puerto de Pandetrave to Portilla de la Reina, I remember it as being all downhill and mostly all on asphalt.

Good luck Unadara!

 

[Tincatinker]

A swan song? Who knows. If the songs been sung there may still be a coda

Enjoy tomorrow!!

 

[Rebekah Scott]

I am presently just on the other side of the mountain from you, in La Hermida. I am planning to hike from here to Tresviso along the Canal de Urbon tomorrow morning. I asked a guide from one of the local outfits about the safety up there tomorrow, and he said the rough weather isn't due until later in the day. "Get up there, buy some cheese, and get back down," he told me. "And if the wind is up hard in the morning, don't do it."
I know the trail you are taking. It is very long and it gets pretty high, but it follows a little Jeep trail up, and a partially asphalted-road back down to the fully-asphalted road that goes on and on. You ought to be OK unless the wind gets too gusty... but then you are on the western face, and this storm is coming from the west! Ask around. It's not a mountain to be messed-with!