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🇫🇷 Voie du PIÉMONT Pyrénéen(Narbonne-Lourdes-SJPP)
From Lourdes to Jaca - any advice highly appreciated:)
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[QUOTE="JabbaPapa, post: 813458, member: 195"] Having walked both Lourdes-Jaca and Lourdes-SJPP -- frankly I'd recommend the second over the first. Starting at the Somport is a great idea, and starting at Lourdes is an even better one. But the hike up from Oloron to the Somport, even if at Arudy you take the short cut and skip Oloron entirely, is tarmacacious, closed-in, boring, and long -- despite those 2-3 very excellent places to sleep at along the way up. Now, when I was up there last time, they were in the process, on the French side, of completely re-making the route and with very different waymarks, and as far as I could tell, it was being made much friendlier ; so my impressions are therefore out of date ; but that doesn't alter the geography of the place, which remains very closed-in and centred around the heavy traffic on the main road up through the pass. If the railway line had been completely abandoned, a lot of it could have become a hiking path ; but they are still trying to re-open the line, so that's not happening. --- I suppose another alternative, if you're keener than most on mountain-hiking, would to get up from Lourdes onto the Pyrenees GR and make your way to the Somport along that ? (that trail hits the Camino at a village that's one day's hike before the Somport on the Arles Way, and that village has one of the aforementioned 2-3 very excellent places to sleep at along the way up ... plus that's the point beyond which the way up to the Somport stops being boring) [/QUOTE]
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