A single peak called Altos De Valdeon now stands between us and our next planned base at Fuente De in the South. This proves to be the hardest trek yet with steep passes, arid waterless features and baking sun. It is also an interesting climb, one that illustrates the transition of habitats in correlation with gaining altitude as we pass from meadows to beech-wood and above that, dry scrub. We camp at 1603m (rough camping below 1600m is prohibited) when we cannot take a step further. Dusk is clear and freezing but made warmer by a miniature bottle of port and a sunset, which stains the crumbling ridge above us orange before picking out the distant silhouettes of the Western Picos against a blaze of purple.
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