May weather in the Picos de Europa?

Tim Cullis

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• Feb 9, 2006

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Looking at doing some tracks in the Picos towards the end of May, but then I wondered about the weather. When we skirted the area at the beginning of May last year there looked like quite a lot of snow at altitude.

Any idea on the typical weather at the end of May?

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Tim, end of May should present no problem at all. This was taken at altitude last April .

Three years ago I was also there in May and definatly no snow on the roads or tracks.

 

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This was the weather around mid may 2003, a few hundred feet above the top of the Fuente De cable car.
There is a great track up there and beyond. I met a guy training on a moto x bike there, he said it wasn't legal but who was going to catch us anyway, we smiled and sped off

 

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