Comabona

At the eastern end of the Cadí rises the mountain of Tancalaporta, better known in the field of hiking with the Berguedà name Comabona. Its strategic location makes the summit one of the best viewpoints in La Cerdanya. The easiest ascent route, accessible by a track from Montellà, to reach the Gosolans pass and the summit following a stony chain without difficulties, leaves the Prat d’Aguiló.

Technical Data

Access: From Martinet take the LV-4055 road to Montellà, then a narrow paved road. Immediately to the right is the long track (13 km), not always in good condition, which climbs to Prat d’Aguiló.

Start: Prat d’Aguiló.

Difficulty: Easy

Maximum altitude: 2,554 m

Elevation gain: 604 m

Total duration: 2.30 h (1.30 h one way / 1 h return)

Time of year: Late spring, summer and autumn.

Notes: In winter the track is usually unaccessible due to the snow and it is not possible to travel until well into spring. The ascent to the Gosolans pass, however, is complicated by the inclination of the snowy slope (35 °). Until well into May, there are still congestions before the Gosolans pass (ice ax and crampons, useful).

Route

From the parking area at the end of the track (1,980 m) that comes from Montellà, continue uphill on foot — there is a chain that prevents unauthorized cars from passing — to the nearby Aguiló meadow, with its guarded refuge (2,040 m, 10 min). The white and yellow stripes of the PR-C 124, which follows the Ruta dels Segadors —which used to run through the Gósol reapers who used to go to the Cerdanya—, and the orange circles of Cavalls del Vent —circuit that connects the guarded refuges in the Cadí-Moixeró Natural Park — indicate a path that passes by a spring and climbs a grassy plain with a small black pine forest. Then it enters the headwaters of the Bastanist valley and making a series of loops with a steep slope crosses a limestone boulder and reaches rocky ledges where the slope decreases. This is how the Gosolans pass (2,430 m, 1 h) was reached, which was also crossed by the painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso in the summer of 1906 once he ended his stay in Gósol.

Leave the PR-C 124 and turn left onto the GR 150.1, a path that crosses the Cadí and the Moixeró along the ridge. In any case, it is better not to follow it because it does not climb to the top of the Comabona, as it avoids it on the southern slope. The most practical and attractive is to go along the ridge of the Cadí, on the left, to the next peak of Aguiló (2,494 m, 1 h 10 min). About 200 m to the right you can see the drinking troughs of the Tordera spring, with very cold water. The ridge turns right. You cross some meadows, you pass a limestone step and you reach the top of the Puig de la Font Tordera (2,526 m, 1 h 15 min). Then, descend to the Comabona pass and continue along the ridge. Then we skirt a small fault in the ground and reach the panoramic peak of Comabona or Tancalaporta (2,554 m, 1 h 30 min), where there are the remains of a geodesic turret.

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