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 Jared Goldberg 23 Jun 2019

Recommendations for a good guidebook for the picos de europa, specifically naranjo de bulnes and the urrielus area? I speak spanish, so language isn't a factor, just having trouble finding a guidebook even on spanish websites. 

 spenser 23 Jun 2019
In reply to Jared Goldberg:

If you're good with Spanish the guidebooks recommended by Ken are probably going to be the best you can get. The second one is really useful even if you didn't speak spanish, it has individual photo topos for each pitch.

I can firmly recommend to not get the Cicerone guide which is pretty useless!

 jwi 23 Jun 2019
In reply to Jared Goldberg:

I haven't seen any guidebook covering anything but the absolutely easiest routes on Naranjo de Bulnes, even in well equipped stores in France or Spain. I would just look on Spanish blogs (this is a good start http://bulnesland.blogspot.com/ ) and decide from there. In the refugio there are plenty of hand drawn topos.

 Rick Sewards 23 Jun 2019
In reply to Jared Goldberg:

I don't know if it's still in print, but this selected guide served me well when I was out there https://www.libreriadesnivel.com/libros/cordillera-cantabrica-escaladas-sel...

Rick

 Will Rupp 23 Jun 2019
In reply to Jared Goldberg:

Theres a big guide book in the refuge with all the topos in. Just ask and they let you take it to take photos / draw your own topos from it.

 Simon Caldwell 24 Jun 2019
In reply to Rick Sewards:

We used that one too and despite speaking no Spanish found it very useful.

Though we also found the Cicerone guide useful, and that's often criticised as being useless (see above for instance!). We also used a paid-for download "supplement" to the Cicerone guide, but I can't find the details and it may not still be available.

removed user 24 Jun 2019
In reply to Jared Goldberg:

In Potes, on the main road in the centre of town there is a touristy looking bookshop that actually has a really good range of climbing books. They're in Spanish. 

Not ideal getting books after you arrive but the two I got served me well. 

 Eciton 24 Jun 2019
In reply to Jared Goldberg:

this is a reasonable guidebook for picos d'europa: https://www.libreriadesnivel.com/libros/escalada-en-roca-en-los-picos-de-eu...

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