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TRIP ON
FOOT. Any place of those described in the bike routes, you he/she can
use to walk and to consent to the places so singular as The Bocal, the rafts of
Four Cabins, The Falls of the Quarter note, Castill of Earth, Pisquerra, The
Rallón, the Big Ravine, the Step of the Deer, The Preserve of Eguaras,... etc.
approaches one in car and a walk is gone for by the place elect.
Next a walk is described on foot by an itinerary of the
Bardenas.
PRESERVE DE EGUARAS. TIP OF THE
ESTROZA
Leaving the fortified Castle of Peñaflor (XII century), in the
natural reservation of the Preserve of Eguaras, one of the scarce places still
tree-lined of the Bardenas, the itinerary consists on arriving and then to go up
the one Big ravine. The turn is made by the border of the plateau of the
Estroza. It is a good occasion to discover and to cross an area particularly
desértica and arid (soon after of the corral of Gayarre): a bad-land. To
facilitate the one itinerary to be provided of the cartographic maps of the
area, of the I exercise, it climbs 1:50.000.
Pictures of the Bardenas. Cliquear on the image
to see them enlarged:
       Access by lorry
We leave Cabanillas in address to Arguedas, we pass the town
and in the first round to catch the highway that consents to the park of the
nature Alive" "Path. When sighting the hermitage of the Virgin of the Yoke, us
we direct for the road toward her, we visit her and from the surroundings we
sight with the binoculars the characteristic formations of the Bardena Blanca:
Castill of Earth,.... We continue for the one on the way to the left that it
lowers and that it will take us to the Bardena Blanca. The road first low and
then it ascends until the Wicket of the I Thrash (7,3 km). It continues lowering
and you arrives to the wide plain of Landazuria (several parallel hints). A
crossing (9 km from final of Arguedas). To turn to the right and to follow the
rubble hint (not to catch to the right an earth hint that begins to a hundred of
meters of the crossing). The hint goes by means of the fields of cereals and
soon it happens (12,7 km) before of the corral of the Chopo. Soon after (13'2
km) there is a first crossing: to catch the highway of the right and to continue
lowering. In the low part of the slope you he/she finds a second crossing (13'6
km): to turn to the left. 800 m later on (14'4 km), you arrives to a crossing.
To catch the hint of the right that lowers smoothly. It is reached this way the
foot of the Castle of Peñaflor (15'4 km).
Itinerary
Of the Castle of Peñallor, to go toward the South-this to a
small one fence enarbolado in which is escavado a small canyon. To walk along
this last one and to lower as soon as it is possible, that is to say 800 m more
or less after their birth. To walk for the canyon and to leave to the left bank
to the height of a corral. To take the address This following the border of a
field. We find a hint, not far from a crossing of roads. To arrive until there.
To rotate to the left and to follow the hint until the height of the corral of
Gayarre, lightly underhanded behind an earthy hill. Of here, to follow a hint
that goes toward the This. Three hundred meters later on to leave it and to go
toward one impressive area desértica (bad-land) very in ravine. An incredible
labyrinth of earth cracks it forms a small ravine of earth walls at once. This
course of water is continued I dry off down (to point out the wealth in the ways
of the relief, sculpted by the waters: torrecillos, domes. small needles, bends,
"high and low reliefs", organ tubes, grottos,...). Soon we find a small canyon
(to the left). To continue down: you arrives then to the Big Ravine near a well
of residual water. Starting from here, the itinerary is simple: it consists on
going up the canyon during near 3 km. For everything is impressive earth arches.
To the height of a trifurcación of the ravine, to enter in the
one canyon of the means. Very quick, he/she spends to the height of big
flagstones that you/they crown a raft. To surround them for the right. Then the
canyon gets wider a little. To leave the ravine ascending for their bank right
orográfica. Of the superior border of the earth throat, leave to the
West-south-west the Tip of the Estroza, next stage of the circuit. To go toward
this summit for the bank of those fields. To overcome a very pending road
through the heath. You ends then in the superior plateau, area of cultivated
fields. Of the Tip of the Estroza is sighted a splendid panorama.
To go for the South border of the plateau being always
attentive to the rocky wall near which one walks (2 km more or less).
Soon the cavalier silhouette of the Castle of Peñaflor is perceived. Soon after, to lower for a not very sheer and stony slope until a
hint, to cross it, then to continue in direcci6n South-west skirting up one
small rocky wall. As soon as it can spend, to lower through the pines, then to
return to the starting point of the itinerary through the plain inferior.
Time: Of 5 at 6 hours.
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