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Over to the right the minor road, CC-193/CCV-12, comes into view. The Puerto de San Martín is not far away. The path comes to an inverted Y-junction where it is joined by a path from the left. Continue right on the joined path, which now makes a track.

Walk through a very open area with rounded rocks, pasture, ferns and flowering bushes. Reach a fence, turn right and follow the track, with the fence on the left. The fence goes off to the left as the track bends right and goes towards the tree-covered hillside ahead. It narrows and becomes granite-paved and winds its way down between the flowered, but rocky, side of the sierra, left.

Come to the head of the valley with impressive views down. Reach a gate and go through it: this is the area of the Puerto de San Martín and there are information boards and signposts. The next part of the walk is waymarked with white and yellow. Facing the main road, turn right to find the track to San Martín, which for the next 4km runs through beautiful Spanish chestnut and Pyrenean oak wood.