Playing the GR20 game

Feeling rested and -more importantly- dry, we start the day in sunshine! A nice change ;) spoiler: it doesn't stay dry all day though :D

Our trail begins steep out of the forest and back on the rocky ridge line. The views from these ridges are so stunning and change from left to right and back. The fog still does its best to hide views here and there, but we get good peaks down the valleys and over more rocky mountain tops again and again. What a beautiful place we get to explore together!

The fog keeps us playing another game, what we simply call "the GR20 game". Our trail mostly stays on the highest point of the mountain ridges and it's often mind blowing to see the rocky faces in front of you and to think there is a trail to go up them somewhere. The game is simple :)
- the fog clears and you see a high, steep, rocky mountain ahead
- you try to guess if the GR20 trail will go right over top it
- the answer is usually yes :)

Compared to the last few days, we start seeing more and more hikers on the trail, a few larger guided groups as well. At one section, we get to our first longer crossing over snow, which we do carefully and safely. One of the guides tries to steer his group above the snow and ends up in a much worse place, having his hikers go over a much steeper snow patch and a tricky downhill, just to join our snow trail in the end anyways.

Of course, it wouldn't be a day of hiking in Corsica if it didn't end in more fog and rain though :) By now we've learnt and are much better at staying dry in our rain layers though! We follow the beautiful trail down into another forest and enjoy all the spring flowers of the season. We camp at a refugio in the middle of the forest and enjoy the rest of the day with other hikers and planning for the next day. Leo met two French hikers, one of which had fallen into a spiky bush and who had tens of splinters all over his hands. With his headlamp handy, he got to be surgery assistant for about half an hour or so. We both decide to be careful which bushes to fall into in the future ;)Read more