Haute Randonée Pyrénéenne: Books

The route is described in detail with illustrative maps in:

Het Grote Pyreneeënavontuur - De Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne in 5 Routes en 42 Etappes
Ton Joosten, 1st edition published in 2002

This guide is written in Dutch, to our joy, however more recently an English edition appeared. In the book a suggestion of stages and estimations of walking times are given. The times were good when climbing and most of the times are too short when decending - especially for me. When you decide to camp, like we did, you are not bound to the suggested stages.

Besides the book, we also used next series of maps:

• IGN-Carte de Randonnées, 1:50 000 - No 1 Pays Basque Ouest,
• IGN-Carte de Randonnées, 1:50 000 - No 2 Pays Basque Est,
• IGN-Carte de Randonnées, 1:50 000 - No 3 Béarn,
• Mapa Excursionista/Carte de Randonnées, 1:50 000 - No 23 Aneto - Posets,
• Mapa Excursionista/Carte de Randonnées, 1:50 000 - No 22 Pica d'Estats - Aneto,
• Mapa Excursionista/Carte de Randonnées, 1:50 000 - No 21 Andorra - Cadí,
• Mapa Excursionista/Carte de Randonnées, 1:50 000 - No 20 Puigmal - Costabona,
• IGN-Carte de Randonnées, 1:50 000 - No 11 Roussillon

Last modified July 2012