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[QUOTE="Bad Pilgrim, post: 900699, member: 50859"] Aragosa is stunning because of the backdrop with the mountains and cliffs all around. One thing I wonder though: the sun is blocked part of the day down in the gorge. How fun is that? :confused: Oh well, I guess the same goes for Alcalá del Júcar and the like. If one is used to walking 30 + kms, there is nothing special about this stage. I didn't notice the uphill profile, probably because the uphill gradually happens for 36 kms. I had coffee in two places: in Baides (I think) and in Huérmeces del Cerro. I was trainwrecked after walking through mud (after a heavy rainfall; it is not always muddy) and wanted to stay in El Molino, which had a spare room for me according to the lady in the cafetería where I stopped. It is possible to split this stage in two! But as soon as I heard that the place was invaded with shouting teenagers, I dropped my napolitana, threw my café con leche out the window and ran away as fast as my legs could carry me. As this historical route falls into oblivion, in competition with Sigüenza, people will fail to notice that most of the difficulties are rumours: there are bars, it is not particularly uphill and it is not excessively long. With the bars and the possibility to stay half-way at El Molino, I don't understand how the Asociación can call this one of the hardest stage on the Lana...! The only obstacles, literally, are the gates that you have to figure out how to open between Mandayona and Baides. I had to climb one or two of them, because I just didn't get through the locks. There are fences on both sides, like you are walking in a corridor, so you can only choose to walk forward - or admit defeat and return to Mandayona. "Fence" and "corridor" doesn't sound very scenic, but this is a beautiful stage whith many wild animals: both on the right and the wrong side of the fence... All the way to Atienza is nice; not as nice as Sigüenza, but it would break my heart if this way would be totally abandoned by pilgrims...! EDIT: I now remember that two spanish teenagers approached me when I was having my coffee; probably curious about my hiking outfit and about the Camino de Santiago in general. We had a chat about this and that and also about my home country that they had visited last year and that they had fond memories of. They were not shouting nor screaming! How is that possible?! Nice as they were, I decided to push on to Atienza... [/QUOTE]
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