Itinerary : From Oloron Ste Marie, take direction Saragosse then Arette. In Arette, follow La Pierre Saint Martin. After 6 km, right before to cross a bridge, you’ll see on the left a trail turning in a hairpin bend. Go up over 900m then park on the wide and flat parking. The path goes right in front of you through the forest. Be careful, the trail is quite abrupt and not adapted for very low vehicules.

GPS datas for parking (wps) : 43.061304, -0.754448

Approach : 4 min. (+15 minutes from down of the trail)

Follow the cairns until the scree. There, a path goes accross it until the foot of the cliff.

Routes bottom :  Comfortable

Altitude : 530 m

Type of rock : limestone

Cliff profiles :

Level an number of routes : Du 6a au 8c
22

Maximum Height : 50 m

Orientation : 

State and quality of equipment : Recent. Well secured.

Regulation :   No restriction

• Escalade en vallée de Barétous, Jean-Michel Larricq, 15€

Vente par correspondance : 18€. Contact : jeanmilarricq@wanadoo.fr

Points of sale :

• Bayonne: librairie Elkar

• Pau : Alpy’rando, BetaBloc

• Oloron-Sainte-Marie : Espace Culturel Leclerc, librairie L’Escapade

• Arette : Bar-tabac Mi-Ke, Maison du Barétous

• Aramits : Intermarché

• Lanne-en-Barétous : Mairie

• Montory : Boulangerie/alimentation Vival, Auberge de l’Etable

• Bordeaux : Climb Up Bordeaux Mérignac

To check the new route that are not in the guide book, go to page INFOS

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