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Description:
In Elizondo take the road to Beartzun. At 3 km a small bridge crosses the river (park the car) and further ahead we see a deviation down to the right (sign for the Itzalargikoborda restaurant). We go down and cross first the river then a tributary. Asphalt gives way to dirt and we climb to a group of farmhouses on the other side (one is called Gure Ametsa). We continue on a left path that soon forks. We climb the one to our right that goes in the opposite direction. We go up, pass the entrance of another farmhouse and reach a fern field. We cross it and at tree height, we exit the ferns to take a small road. We reach a fork and continue on the rising small road (the other is dirt and descends). Asphalt gives way to cement. At a very sharp right curve we take a path that enters the forest. We reach logs that act as a fence and parallel to them we go up until exiting onto a wide dirt path with GR marks. We follow them and reach the wide Bailegi pass (several farmhouses). In front of us a wooden post indicates, among others, the direction to Peña Alba. A little further ahead, a fork. We follow the left path heading to a forest. The track, very wide, has no loss. We pass a signposted fountain (trampako iturri) and the slope steepens. Further ahead we pass another fountain and finally reach another pass with a large hunters' refuge. In front of us we see the cone of Peña Alba. We leave the borda to the right and climb a grassy slope (flanked by hunting posts) towards the forest. Here comes the most confusing section. Among ferns and rocks we try to orient towards the summit (the easiest path is to the right, as reference we head to the roots of a large fallen tree). At the summit there is a geodetic vertex and two completely rusted mailboxes. In summer, the rocks are full of lizards and some rodent that can pierce your backpack looking for food.
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Video length: 05:06
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