Sunday, July 20, 2008
Ezcaurri
There is no way around it, you have to go over it. With a 20 kilo pack it was never going to be easy.
The big stuff
The cloud cover you can see trying to crawl over the mountains is coming from the north, France.
Sometimes it would catch us, sometimes we were lucky.
Mountains of Aragon
Looking east from Navarra towards the high peaks of Aragon is exciting though worrying at the same time. I couldn't imagine how I was going to make it through the steep climbs and drops over the next couple of weeks. This wasn't helped by the fact that I had just received word from Lola in Barcelona that the son of a friend of hers had started the GR11 about 2 weeks before us and had just given up in Alto Aragon because he couldn't take the heights and difficult terrain.
Wednesday, May 21, 2008
7 months later.
Well we have been back in New Zealand for 7 months now and the Big Walk seems like distant history however I have been promising myself that I want to tweak the blog a bit. We have a lot more photos now and the early entries at the beginning of the walk weren't that detailed so they need to be upgraded. I want to see if I can also put a map on the blogsite showing the actual walk that we did (we did a few extras apart from the GR11, climbing to the top of Puigmal for example and a visit over to the Sierra de Cadi).
Now that the pain in my feet has subsided my thoughts are turning to the next challenge; I like Spain so maybe a walk through the Picos de Europa? Its only 250 kilometres so it would be, as Mr. Bennett was so fond of saying as we struggled uphill in the Pyrenees, a walk in the park.
Now that the pain in my feet has subsided my thoughts are turning to the next challenge; I like Spain so maybe a walk through the Picos de Europa? Its only 250 kilometres so it would be, as Mr. Bennett was so fond of saying as we struggled uphill in the Pyrenees, a walk in the park.
Monday, October 29, 2007
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