Vía Ferrata El Risco

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Lindsay G.

July 18, 2025

Parking is scarce, so we hope it's light. It looks like this via hasn't been climbed in a long time, as the information board is damaged on the ground. The blue arrow is only visible at the beginning, but then disappears, making it a bit of a search for the start. Be brave enough to walk past the fence with the wooden posts. On the way back, it was also a search for the parking lot: under the barbed wire, continue along the path, and then through the fence. Then we suddenly found orange dots and finally ended up at the parking lot. The via itself is quite nice, but short.

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Elec C.

April 08, 2025

Via ferrata, with a small waterfall, will be even more beautiful if it's been raining... and more water will fall than usual, but you won't get wet. You enter through a private property and follow the course of the ravine. The K4 overhang is very short, but somewhat technical. You can choose the other option. This is a short via ferrata, but with great views of the green meadows. You can rappel down, divided into 30 meters, if there aren't too many people.

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Nicola S.

August 12, 2024

Nice little via, park opposite the little red house (although please don't take the pee if there are already lots of vehicles there), and, as others have said, follow to the RHS of the house, when this obvious track turns 90 degrees (after about 5 mins or so) to the left, away from the river bed, leave the main track and instead keep going straight up on the path that barely looks like more than a sheep track, all your instincts tell you to stick to the main track but don't be tempted this is the exit path only. (Noting we didn't see or pass through any cattle gates cited by another reviewer) Follow this path up (parallel to the dry river bed below? ) for a short while until you get to the place that another person has posted pictures of cows, keep going straight/scramble over some rocks, almost like climbing up a dry river bed (imagine this spot gets quite boggy when wet) , and literally a minute later you will see the start of the via directly above. If you've been going more than 10/15 mins you've probably gone wrong Start is very easy but the wall I'd say was K4, as it's slightly slanted towards the climber for most of the way, with lots (ok so probably only 4 or 5 but enough to make me curse them) of short steps between changing clips to new wire sections, to call it an over hang would be a bit melodramatic, and it's completely do able, and not very long, but I wasn't expecting this on a K3. When the via split we took the route to the left with the traverse, followed by another wall, again this was lovely with exposure and plenty of safety, but I'd say deff more of a 4 than a 3 due to a few steps that made me think a bit. Directly after the wire bridge you exit straight up, over the strand of wire fence, can't get lost on the way back, another lovely via with short walks in/out. P.s. Wikiloc is a great app if you are often finding it hard to find the start of Ferratas in northern Spain, it doesn't have the pandillo Via on there yet, but all others I've looked up so far are mapped out on the app.