Cerdagne is the high, sunny basin of the eastern Pyrenees around Font-Romeu, Mont-Louis and Bourg-Madame, on the border with Catalonia. The multipitch climbing is on granite and gneiss: roadside slabs above the Carol valley at Porta, and higher, more alpine walls in the north cirque of the Cambre d'Aze above Eyne and Saint-Pierre-dels-Forcats. The Toulouse to Latour-de-Carol train stops at Porta and in the Cerdagne villages, and the N20 and N116 bring you in by car from Ax-les-Thermes or Perpignan. The season runs from late spring to October; the Cambre d'Aze routes sit above 2000 m and are summer and early-autumn objectives.
GuidebookGuía de escalada en el Pirineo Norte: vías largas, fáciles y bien equipadas, Xabier Larretxea (2022, Sua Edizioak). Buy from kletterfuehrer.net. The route pages here are aggregated by AI from public sources; climb with the guidebook.
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La Fullatera above Porta, Carol valley (the Cambre d'Aze north cirque is 25 km east) · 1,588 m
| Measure | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May (usual season) | Jun (usual season) | Jul (usual season) | Aug (usual season) | Sep (usual season) | Oct (usual season) | Nov | Dec |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mean daily high °C | 4 | 4 | 7 | 9 | 14 | 19 | 22 | 22 | 18 | 14 | 7 | 4 |
| Mean daily low °C | −4 | −4 | −1 | 1 | 5 | 9 | 12 | 12 | 8 | 5 | −0 | −3 |
| Rain days 1 mm or more | 10 | 10 | 11 | 14 | 15 | 14 | 12 | 12 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 10 |
● usual season. 1991-2020 averages at about 1588 m; rain is for a 10–25 km grid cell. Weather and climate data: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.
France · Cerdagne (Eastern Pyrenees)
A long, easy granite outing on low-angled slabs above the Carol valley, popular with Catalan and French parties as a first big multipitch. The few steeper steps are short and closely bolted, the belays are roomy, and the best climbing is saved for the last pitch, a steeper 5a wall on big holds.
5aV+5.75aV+5.78 pitches330 m