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[QUOTE="geraldkelly, post: 1235395, member: 1317"] I've walked this particular part 5 time and I think I walked a different way each time! The first time in 2012 it was May and it was raining cats and dogs. I remember arriving at the AVE works and getting some surprised looks from the men working there. That time I took a left over the bridge at the ruined building ([I]alternative route[/I]) and then I followed the rived uphill to the pass. The river was flooded and if you'd taken the right ([I]historic route[/I]) option at the ruined building there's no way you'd have been able to get across it. The second time in 2016 I was with a Scottish lad from Glasgow. We crossed the bridge again but we ended up following a completely different route which zig-zagged up to the pass. There was a bit of snow that day but not much. It was windy and bloody freezing up there and we didn't hang around. Third time, 2019, Ave works were in full swing and we all got diverted up the hill to the track which runs near the main road. It was a bit dull but an easy walk. Fourth time, 2022, first time post Ave, however at the ruined building the bridge to the left was blocked with a fence that didn't look climbable. So I took the historic route. It was August and it hadn't rained in months so getting across the river was easy. I nearly got eaten alive by files in the woods. If I was going there in summer again I'd get one of those face nets to keep them away. Fifth time, 2023, this time it was weird because the Camino had been fenced off before we got to the ruined building and waymarkings sent us up an unpaved road to the track beside the main road. I went up the hill, I wanted a GPS track of it because it seemed to be the new "official Camino". Another pilgrim got over the fence and walked one of the routes I had walked in years gone by. He said it was absolutely fine. So, I think the moral of this story is the more often you want this particular stretch the more confused you get. I'm pretty certain there's a few other ways you could go too, I just haven't found them yet. It's like a thick mist descends and you enter a twilight zone shortly after leaving Requejo. The photo attached is the ruined building with the sign in 2022. [/QUOTE]
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