Day Five - Amitges Refuge to Colomina Refuge

Another long day, though perhaps even more spectacular than the last. A bright clear dawn, rapidly turning hot under the unbroken, ever deepening blue sky. A steady pace, heeding all water. Lottie, Peter and Chris consult early in the day, the encantats as a backdrop - erring shepherds turned to stone as the legend would have it. Again the terrain threw a surprise that the map had only hinted at- several kilometres of van-sized boulders thrown across a vast couloir as a giant might discard dice, the antlike humans picking their way among and over them as the sun scorches this inhospitable place. As the boulders thin and finish the path continues rising, scrabbling up dust and scree to the col at nearly 2700 metres. We are glad that is over. Yet ahead the terrain has changed again, the easy three kilometres to the next hut are no such thing, and we thread our way on through a landscape of rock and water.