Review
of the guide
It
includes the description of those four long routes with its
variants: the GR 7-3, from the Serra d'Argentera to the Coll
del Guix; the GR 7-5, from Pla de Riat to Solsona; the GR 7-8,
from Prenafeta to the Coll de Lilla; the GR 171-1, from Fonoll
to the Coll de Forès; the GR 171-3, from the foot of
the Serra de Cavalls to La Fonteta; the GR 171-4, from Poblet
to the refuge of Cogullons; and the GR 174-1, meeting point
of the GR 174 and the GR 171. All together, about 1006 km of
marked routes.
The
route has been divided in sections that, theoretically, can
be made in one day (between 15 and 25 km), with beginning and
end in places where public transport is easy to find (train,
bus). Each card is a section of the route with a map (a piece
of a map of the ICC scale 1:50.000, with the route overprinted),
a description of the route (with distances in time and km) and
a profile of the grounds.
Because
of the size of the publication, the system used is a kind of
filing with rings and tough covers. The pages can be extracted,
what allows to bring only the necessary material for each walk.
It also includes the English translation of all the texts.
The
GR 7 is the central route and, around it, the rest of the routes
are built (they once were variants of it but, because of the
growth of their length, they became independent routes). The
GR 7 was the first long route created in Spain (it began in
1972) and belongs to the route E-4 of the European Footpaths
Net (from Gibraltar to Greece).
Before
the description, there is a section with interesting information
for the walker, including: the footpathing in Catalonia, the
Xarxa Catalana de Senders, security in the mountain, basic rules
of behaviour in nature, general suggestions, using the guide
and marking.
The
section about general information includes a card of each of
the villages by which the route goes by (interesting information,
telephone numbers, etc) and also about the civil and military
buildings, the religious buildings, the refuges, the mountains
and the rivers.
