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Crushed rock fills the Camino Primitivo in Galicia
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[QUOTE="notion900, post: 431267, member: 2280"] I read this thread with great trepidation before setting off on the Primitivo 3 weeks ago. I have an MSc in Countryside Management and have personal experience in path construction. I took careful notice of the work that had been done and took photos specifically to post here. It's true that almost a metre after you enter Galicia, there is some path work which is rather blatant and intrusive (photo 1 - you can see the starting point of the new material). But from then on, it seemed that the work had only been done in places to combat erosion by water, and certainly not on long continuous stretches where no crushed rock had been present before. The work is very new so it looks glaring and ugly, e.g. the material is pale and the ditches have been cleaned out, which looks awfully stark and makes the path look wider (e.g. in photo 2). But nowhere did I see any evidence of widening of the path over and above the original width, or dramatic change of the camber, profile, or straightening, which would be typical of bulldozer use. Ditch clearance is a standard practice which would have taken place regularly in winter before the countryside became so depopulated, and crushed rock surfacing is present in many older roads in the area, which has now become obscured by vegetation growth, so it looks more 'rustic', with two wheel tracks. I saw no damage to old walls or banks anywhere, which would be expected if heavy machinery were used in a confined space. In many places, granite channels have been placed across the path to limit erosion (photo 3), and occasionally along the line of the path (photo 4). Again, they look intrusive when new, but in time, even these stones are likely to be displaced and undermined by running water. Note that the 'crazy paved' stone and cement section in photo 5 was the only section like that I saw, and was only about 200m long. Also worth to mention is that the character of the rural roads in Galicia is different to Asturias, and the unimproved sections in Galicia are not so 'scenic' as the Asturian byways, so the effect of the works comes as more of a shock when entering Galicia. I feel that on balance, overall it was high quality work, which with time, weather and wear and tear, and the regrowth of the vegetation, will become not so intrusive, [I]as long as the stone crazy paving isn't allowed to become the standard method[/I]. [NB I crossed to the Norte after Lugo so can't comment on Lugo to Palas de Rei.] [/QUOTE]
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