Cotton liner is not enough for jacobsweg?

[melania93]

I will start my pilgrimage from konstanz to geneva in 28 august for 20 days.
At first I think cotton liner would be fine but I read some articels that in switzerland normally pilgrims hostel doesn't have blanket. So I would like asking that I have to put a sleepingbag in my backpack instead of liner.
And one more thing.
It rain often in september?

 

[Kitsambler]

I did not see blankets in the Swiss hostels in May; the Swiss walkers (and I) all carried lightweight (ie, indoor) down bags. According to Weather Underground (www.wunderground.com), Zurich got 2 cm of rain in September 2013. Normally September is lovely weather, with only a day or two of rain.

 

[bokormen91]

You'll also be better off with a sleeping bag than a liner if you do the "sleeping in hay/schlafen im stroh" (which generally is sleeping in barns). Hay is prickly!!!

Weather - it depends. So far we've had a really wet Summer (I live at the other side of the lake from Konstanz). Zürich is generally drier than what it is by the lake, but normally September is a nice month.

At the moment gravel paths are still decent, but the forest/ry paths are generally muddy. We tend to camp/bivouac during the Summer, but have not bothered this year as there's so much mud (too lazy to clean the mud off the tent...)

 

[gittiharre]

Odd, I walked the route last year in September and only used a silk liner, everywhere I slept had blankets, I slept in the straw about 3 times and there were lots of blankets. I certainly did not need a sleeping bag once and I stayed in as many pilgrims hostels as possible as I had a limited budget.

 

[melania93]

Thank you all of the answers. Each of them is very helpful to me. ^^