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From Canfranc, take the road to the Somport Pass and, once you’ve left the town, pass above the Santa Cristina hotel and turn off the road at a wide left-hand bend, at a car park just before a bridge. The place is called Casa l’Anglasé.
(S) Start on the wide track (dirt track), which crosses the River Aragon via a bridge and turns right with almost no climb.
(1) A path branches off to the right, heading downhill: ignore this and follow the GR®11 markings; a sign clearly indicates Chinipres.
(2) This takes you to the “area recreativa de Canal Roya”, where facilities are provided for picnics, barbecues and, possibly, pitching a tent (to be checked). Drinking water available. Continue along the narrow path.
(3) You’ll come to a level dirt track; follow it to the right. This track runs almost level up the Canal Roya valley.
(4) Turn right onto a path leading to a bridge over the stream. Cross the bridge and head uphill on the other side.
(5) At a junction, take a path climbing up the slope to the right, signposted for Chiniprés. This path climbs quite steeply at first, then less so. Once you reach the hut (in ruins), you have arrived.
(6) Return along the same route in the opposite direction to (S).
Optional: it is possible and fairly easy to climb a little way above the Chiniprés hut (off the path); the view stretches out even further!
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