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Chris’s Camino

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    10. huhtikuuta 2025
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    SJPdP time to start walking!

    11. huhtikuuta 2025, Ranska ⋅ ⛅ 14 °C

    Ok it’s finally time! I’ve been thinking of this for a long time. This morning I was awoken by “angels” singing (the gite plays some mellow choir music at 7 to get all the pilgrims up)

    Forecast for today is perfect (I like some cloud cover) and no rain. But it is currently foggy. So my walk around the citadel on top of the town was misty and cool. I am stalling a bit, because first day is short 11km.

    Here are some pics from town and citadel.    Lue lisää

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    I met a cute chubby horse pony right outside town.My first sheep in the background.My destination today. Getting close. Very tired.1

    I made it! Up the first hill to Borda

    11. huhtikuuta 2025, Ranska ⋅ ⛅ 19 °C

    That was tough. Lots of uphill. About 2500’ gain today. This place is nice! Dorms but all new. And quite a view.

    Some people do twice as far on the first day. But for me, this was a good start. Plenty.Lue lisää

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    Very close to the top!

    12. huhtikuuta 2025, Ranska ⋅ ☀️ 11 °C

    Little snack truck down below where I got a banana and some cheese that the man had made he says. I thought it was pretty tasty. I sure am hoping I’m close to the top now. Kind of a cool forest here the leaves have not popped on the trees yet, but they’re bark is gnarly and cool And there are some horses that seem to have free room of these mountains, but they don’t come to visit the pilgrimsLue lisää

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    Downhill into Roncesvalles

    12. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 13 °C

    Long downhill into Roncesvalles. I was quite tired of all the uphill hiking. Then soon learned than a long downhill was also rough. I think maybe I will be getting into better shape so these won’t bother me as much in another week or two.Lue lisää

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    Staying in Roncesvalles

    12. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ 🌩️ 15 °C

    Staying at the old monastery here. Built in the 1200’s!! But it’s new here in my floor. I’m with 40 others here. Should be noisy either way snoring tonight! And added bonus big thunder and lightning.

    Had some trout at the restaurant next door. Meh. Pretty cool to be in an 800 year old building for the night.    Lue lisää

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    Roncesvalles - 13th century monastery!

    12. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    I made it down from the pass. That was a long day for me! Some folks came all the way from sjpdp to here. That would be nuts! My legs would fall off !

    This monastery is converted to an albergue. I’m on the 3rd floor. With about 40 others. Apparently it holds 250 pilgrims! Should be some interesting snoring orchestra tonight.

    Showered and did my laundry by hand. But they had a cool “spinner”. Hopefully it will dry soon on the line. I think they may serve trout for dinner. This is close towhere Hemingway used to do his fly fishing a long long time ago.    Lue lisää

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    Burgette

    13. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 9 °C

    What a cute town! Very nice matching architecture on the buildings. I had my very first coffee con Leche, which I have been hearing about for a couple years. It was tasty.

    First time leaving my polls at a café and walking more than a couple hundred meters away. So now I have to backtrack. That’ll teach me.Lue lisää

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    Into Zubiri

    13. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 12 °C

    This was my longest day walking so far in my life. My Fitbit says 29km, but the guide says it wasn’t that long. 39,000 steps! How There were a couple missteps that caused extra distance. But it doesn’t really add up.

    Walking time 8.5 HOURS (cuz I’m slow) but that does include a bunch of breaks.

    On the last bit, there is a more dangerous stretch resembling dragons teeth, formed by flysch (look it up, rock layers that are pretty crazy looking and a bit tough to walk on.) Also some slippery mud.

    Made it to Casa Suseia albergue where she served a delicious dinner.    Lue lisää

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    Casa Suseia - Leaving Zubiri

    14. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 7 °C

    Today I have a shorter day planned. It’s gonna be nice on my sore legs. Only 16 km. To a little town or suburb of Pamplona called Trinidad de Arre. There’s a app I’m using called Wyze Pilgrim, which is awesome. It has a map and it also has a profile view with the exaggerated vertical so you can really see the ups and downs. Today’s ups and downs are very minimal looking. I will post a picture and compare it to yesterday.

    Casa Suseia is so nice! Host Sara so sweet and great chef. Attached also is the breakfast. I prepaid for it, if you purchase it it’s in a cute little tub with your name on it and lots of food. I couldn’t eat half of it.    Lue lisää

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    New flowers that just appeared today. Have not seen those until just now.

    The many types of paths

    14. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    This path is always changing. It seems like every couple minutes the surface or the environment will change and usually beautiful.

    The surface I’m walking on can be several different types of mud, not so fun. Or could be dry dirt or it could be several types of crushed tiny, sandy decomposed granite, small gravel. It can be more normal gravel or large gravel, which is a little harder to walk on or very large rocks. Also several types of paved trail, asphalt not so much yet which is good. But a type of concrete or tile-ish thing made from slate maybe And all of these can be interspersed with puddles. You have to go around and of course there’s the dragons teeth flyshe that was more prevalent yesterday.

    All the while either walking through a beautiful meadow or a forest or a dark covered woods or next to horse pastures with little foals that appear to have been born very recently. Lots and lots of birds making different calls that I have never heard in California. Including cuckoo’s!

    And today for sure, a babbling, tiny brook or a creek or a small river every couple minutes.

    It’s just cool how it’s always changing.

    I know this won’t last, because the “Meseta” will be more of the same thing every day apparently. But it’s all good.

    Bonus foal video. So cute!!    Lue lisää

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    Zuriain - break and rain

    14. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 15 °C

    Often photographed cafe in Zuriain I stopped for my first Aquarius. It’s an electrolyte drink less sweet than a Gatorade. Then the rain started, hard. Forecast called for another hour without rain. Nice I’m under cover so I can get my Altus poncho/jacket all on.

    Also getting a little extra charge on the phone, and WiFi!    Lue lisää

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    ZABALDIKA

    14. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 14 °C

    Did not stop, except for a picture. The field of wheat or oats or something is very green and pretty. The rain seems to have stopped so I was able to take off my poncho, but it hangs conveniently on the back of my pack if it’s not too windy.Lue lisää

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    Albergue La trinida de Arre

    14. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ 🌧 16 °C

    Arre was a nice stop. Only 25% of the beds filled. Not many electrical outlets here, or WiFi, or meal. I walked to a grocery store and got food. Town is cute. Used to be a huge water powered fabric whacker of some sort here near my spot (to make the fabric strong?). 900 year old building I read. Had a couple friendly doggos.Lue lisää

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    Arre to Pamplona

    15. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ☁️ 8 °C

    Nice short walk. Fitbit says 6.8 km, and 9000 steps. It was mostly through the suburbs of Pamplona I think would be accurate. Some of the best marked section I have seen so far. Big giant blue markings on the sidewalks with arrows.

    Getting into downtown Pamplona where there’s a big wall with turrets on the corners for the archers I assume, it’s pretty impressive. And then you’re into the old town.

    Nice manager at the Bearan bar and Rooms let me into my room several hours before check in. It’s overlooking a busy little narrow street. Pretty cool. Unfortunately, the downstairs bar is under construction so just rooms for now.    Lue lisää

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    Several signs here on one corner, I won't miss this turn!

    Adios Pamplona

    16. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 5 °C

    On the way out of Pamplona, I went by the Ciudadela, big giant fort walls on the other end of town. My route didn’t take me close enough, so I went over to see it. Then on the way back, I had three elder pamplonians‘s help point the right way. They are all very nice and concerned I was going to walk the wrong way. I had heard this happens often, but this was my biggest one of great help from the locals.Lue lisää

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    Each line is 200 meters in elevation 😔

    Cizur Menor

    16. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja ⋅ ⛅ 7 °C

    2 bedea town. 😂 (see sign) Nice little climb from Pamplona. Legs feel ok. Last cafe bar for several miles I hear from a pilgrim here. So got a tasty cafe con leche again. It was 39° in Pamplona brrr. Now it’s getting nice.

    Elevation profile from Wyze Pilgrim app it’s posted below. Looks like some serious climbing soon.    Lue lisää

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    Tasty scrambled egg y jamon bocadillo here before heading up the hill

    Into Zariquiegui

    16. huhtikuuta 2025, Espanja

    Mostly uphill for the last few km. Nice old La Iglesia de San Andrés was Romanesque originally, but has had some modifications over the centuries. According to my phone, I have been passing fields of oat and broad bean and also something that look like peas that I didn’t ever confirm. Pretty fields.

    Still have a big peak to get over today.    Lue lisää

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