“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that Goddam mountain.”-Jack Kerouac Beget-Albanya- Figueres- Cap de Creus Perhaps it is best to start week 9 with the ending…and a few statistics! We did indeed reach the Mediterranean at Cap de Creus, 62 days after we left the crashing…
“We are here to know the meaning of life’s wild enchantment and to call each thing by its right name“- Boris Pasternak Pugicerda- Planoles- Nuria- Setcases-Beget Week 8 began in the town of Pugicerda which lies in high, broad rift between the Alpine Pyrenees to the west and a final, high section around the Catalan ‘stronghold’ of…
Refugio Conagles- Espot (Not continuous)- La Guigueta d’Aneu Estaon- Bordos de Nibros- Areu After events in Week 6 on Ballibierna, we were forced to take two rest days at Refugio Conagles, this dented our budget a bit but it was a much needed respite and chance to watch the daily tide of hikers that are the rhythm…
‘I am uncomfortably aware of the very little I have seen and experienced of things in general, and of our country in particular’ Miss Trevelyan had just confessed, ‘but the little I have seen is less, I like to feel, than what I know. Knowledge was never a matter of geography. Quite the reverse, it…
“Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness….”- ‘To Autumn’ by John Keats Ordessa- Pineto- Parzan- Puen de San Chaime Total mileage to date: 388/812km Week 5 was the week when things changed, we reached the half-way point of our trek, and September broke upon us, bringing mist, the drama of swirling clouds, cold and the first dusting of…
“I sat upon the setting sun…and never wanted water once….” – Cat Stevens Days: 20-25. Sallent de Gallengo- Banos De Panticosa- St Nicholas Bujaruelo- Torla Mileage to date: 277km/812km By week 4 we were entering the heart of the granite mountains, and the days that followed our departure from the town of Sallent de Gallengo…
Hi All, after 60 days on the trail we arrived on the Mediterranean to complete the GR11 last Tuesday and are now back home. We are in the process of updating our GR11 blog and the update for week 4 will follow shortly. We mentioned in our week 3 update that we had a very…
Through the gates of the mountains Days 13-18 (Isaba- Zurzia-La Mina – Candanchu- Sallent de Gallengo) Total distance: 231km/ 818km Total ascent for the week: 3700m (Please click on photos if you want to enlarge). This week things got harder and more spectacular in equal measure as we left the ‘hill’s’ of Navarra…
Sorting out our food resupply for the week on our hotel floor…trying to pack as many calories into as lighter weight as possible! Week 2: Burguette- Obara- Orchagavia- Isaba (4 days) Total distance walked by end of week: 157km/818km Altitude gain (this week): 2100m (Note: we had hoped make the pictures larger but it is…
Trekking through the high country of Navarre, the main Pyrenean massif is suddenly much closer. Hi folks, just an update to say that our blog for week 2 is imminent…we have been out in the hills for days with no Wi-Fi! All is well, we are deep into the mountains now, the going is hard…so…
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