Núria Picas: "Collecting 3000-meter-high mountains is what we love most about summer."

Barcelona"For me, the best summer memories are sharing the mountains with my children." Trail runner Núria Picas has passed on her passion to her fourteen-year-old twins, especially during the summer months when they take advantage of the opportunity to go to the mountains. "Collecting three-thousanders is what we love most about summer," she says. They've achieved quite a few goals: "We've done the Aneto crossing, the Pica de Estados, the Monte Perdido, the Cavalls del Vent..." In fact, they didn't finish the last one—she clarifies—because one of the children suffered an injury, not from riding, but from playing basketball. "Sometimes, indoor sports are worse than high-altitude mountain sports," Picas assures.

She has seen how, from a young age, the children went from thinking they couldn't ask for more. Always with common sense and without going overboard: "When you ask them to climb a peak like this, which isn't easy, it's very gratifying to see the physical and mental strength they have, even if you think they might be too young to face such great challenges." At six years old, they already climbed Pedraforca: "The key is to share it with friends; having other children helps keep them distracted. Now, perhaps we don't need it as much."

Looking back, there's one trek he's particularly excited to share. It was the 2022 trip to Posets Peak, the second highest peak in the Pyrenees, located on the Aragonese side. Accompanied by two friends from Picas and their respective children—five children in total—they set off on this circular route with shelters where they would spend the night. They'd been told they'd find a surprise before starting, but the excitement remained the same when they found themselves halfway there with the Tormo Cabin, the setting for the legendary Celtas Cortos song April 20, who had accompanied the three friends who made the journey during their adolescence. "Do you remember that night at Tormo's Cabin? The laughs we had together before," says the song. And that's how this group of hikers sang it after taking the obligatory photos and going inside for breakfast. The little ones didn't know it, but now the lyrics will be very hard to forget. "We found it funny because it was a nineties anthem and no one knows if it says Turmo either Tormo"It was precisely these friends and I who had heard it in bars. It stirred up our childhood memories," the runner explains. Naturally, the journey had to end with the summit: "This is the true legacy that we, mothers and children, will take with us: the ascent of these iconic peaks."