Pradera Ordesa - Faja Racón - Faja Canarellos

Date: 29 Aug 2020
Time: 7-8h including stops.
Difficulty: Easy
Distance: 16km
GPS Track - https://www.wikiloc.com/wikiloc/hiking-trails/fajas-racon-y-canarellos-ordesa-17904745
Background music by Mala Raza - https://www.malaraza.net
Excellent route!
We take advantage of this excursion that on these dates, you can still reach the Pradera de Ordesa car park with our vehicles, before the buses of the National Park give service.
We opted to save the entire slope at the beginning of the day, so we began by going back a few hundred meters along the road we have arrived on, until the beginning of the path next to Casa Oliván, towards the Circo de Carriata. As the morning is cool and we are not in a hurry, we take it easy and thus enjoy the road more.
When we arrive at this rock circus, under the imposing Tozal del Mallo welcoming us, we will turn east to start the first strip of the day, Racón. The path, which practically maintains the altitude during the tour, is a spectacular viewpoint and does not entail any technical difficulty, yes, as always in the mountains, caution ... This time we are going to find a snowfield almost reaching Cotatuero, but easily dodged.
Now we will lose height until the metal bridge that crosses the Cotatuero ravine, and once there, a small slope and we are already in the Canarellos Belt. From the Racón Strip it seemed impossible that there was a path here !!
If before the walls of the Gallinero through which we have walked have impressed us, these of the Fraucata are not too small ... The route is very comfortable and little by little it is losing height and we are entering the Forest of the Hayas de Ordesa , where this strip ends.
Being already at the bottom of the valley, we go down the normal path of Ordesa, visiting some of its famous waterfalls, until the beginning of the route.