Carros de foc, the legend

It was the summer of 1987 when some guards of the area refuges decided to make the journey: Pallars – Ribagorça – Aran, in a single day. It was not a competition, only a way to visit the other guards and chat a while.

Someone, we don’t know exactly who, nor why, called it Carros de Foc (chariots of fire). Since then, when someone makes the trip in one day, summer or winter, the message goes from refuge to refuge, as fast as the wind crosses the hills: “Here come the chariots of fire.”