Stage 6: Villanueva de Aezkoa/Hiriberri - Ochagavía/Otsagabia

GR11 / Stage 6: Villanueva de Aezkoa/Hiriberri - Ochagavía/Otsagabia

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Villanueva de Aezkoa/Hiriberri - Ochagavía/Otsagabia

↔️ Distance: 20.6 km
📈 Unevenness (+840 m), (-1.000 m) 📉
🕒 Time: 5h45min (walking time non-stop) / xhxxmin (with stops)
⚠️ Difficulty: average due to the accumulated gradient and distance. The signposting of the route is excellent, only, in case of fog, it will be necessary to be careful not to lose the signs in the area between the Paso Tapla and the Paso de las Alforjas.

📌 (0h0min; 0 kms) Villanueva de Aezkoa (920m). We head towards the upper part of the village, where a path heads north, between meadows, towards the Sierra de Berrendi. We pass a trough We join a road that we will follow to the right until the end of the road (source💧 ), where it gives way to a path that climbs steeply through the beech forest.

📌 (1h10min; 3,2 kms) Ollokiate Pass (1.275m). Nearby, to the left, is the peak of Berrendi (1,351m). The GR11 turns right and continues through the forest, close to the edge of the mountain range. After the Portillo de Martxate, the path comes out onto clear ground where it joins a track that takes us to the...

📌 (3h05min; 9,6 kms) Tapla Pass (1.367m)The path crosses a small road that links Ochagavía with the Casas de Irati. The path climbs towards Idorrokia (1492m), leaves it to the left and continues along the high part of the Sierra de Abodi, between meadows, to the geodesic vertex of...

📌 (3h35min; 11,5 kms) Western Abodi or Harrizabala (1.496m). We leave it behind and continue to the...

📌 (3h45min; 12,6 kms) Paso de las Alforjas (1.440m). Shelter in the vicinity (free, precarious). The GR11 leaves the high part of the sierra to descend through grassy terrain, halfway down the southern slope of the sierra. The path runs along the edge of the forest until it reaches a ridge where it turns south and descends directly in search of a track. We follow it to the left (E), although we soon leave it to go down along paths until we reach another one that we follow in a southerly direction - uphill - along a hill that extends to the Muskilda Sanctuary. Before we cross the road that goes up from Ochagavía.

📌 5h10min; 18,9) Sanctuary of Muskilda (1020m). The place is worth a stop before tackling the short but steep descent to...

📌 (5h45min; 20,6 kms) Ochagavía (750m).

  • Beech forest near the Ollokiate pass
  • Berrendi mountain range. The southern face of the Sierra de Berrendi is steep.
  • Arburua Forest on the descent from Abodi to Muskilda
  • Ochagavía/Otsagabia

At Hiriberri/Villanueva de AezkoaAguerre Rural House.

2.5 kilometres from Hiriberri, at Aribethe Hotel Rural Aribe offers the possibility of picking up walkers in Orbara or Hiriberri if requested in advance and taking them back the following morning.

At the end of the stage, in OchagavíaThere are several hotels and rural houses: Hotel Auñamendi , Orialde Guesthouse , Bidezarra Rural House , Mantxoalorra Rural House , Pistolo Apartments y Rural House Burret.

- Alpina: Irati and Aezkoa Valleys (Scale: 1/25.000).
- SUA edizioak: Irati Forest (Scale: 1/25.000).

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GR 11

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