Via Ferrata Paret de les Arcades - Terradets

General difficulty: K3

Access time: 1′

Route time: 45′ – 1h

Return time: 25′

Route length: 240 m

Equipment needed:

• • Appropriate footwear (mountain sports shoes or boots)
  • Appropriate clothing according to the season of the year and the current weather. We will advise you.
  • Work gloves (such as gardening or cycling gloves for example) – Highly recommended but not mandatory.
  • A small backpack (20 l)
  • Water (1 l min)
  • Something to snack on (sandwich, fruit, chocolate, dried fruit…)
  • Sunglasses, sunscreen

Scale of difficulty of via ferratas:

Eduard Hüsler (1944) created this classification in 2007. He thought that something was needed to indicate that this classification was about a via ferrata, to avoid confusion with other classifications such as mountaineering ones, so he added the letter K ( from Klettersteig, via ferrata in German), changing the letters to numbers.

It is the scale most used today:

• • K1: Easy
  • K2: Little difficult
  • K3: Something difficult
  • K4: Difficult
  • K5: Very difficult
  • K6: Extremely difficult

This graduation depends on 4 factors:

• • Necessary force
  • Endurance and physical fitness required
  • Mountain and climbing experience
  • Psychological issues and risk management

In general we can say that up to K3 level anyone who knows the proper progression techniques is physically able to do a ferrata. From K3 and especially from K4, a certain degree of physical condition is required to be able to overcome the difficulties that arise with guarantees of enjoying the atmosphere.