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In deciding whether to stay at Orisson, you need to consider your fitness level, whether you're used to hiking inclines/mountains, that this is probably your first day out, and that you don't know what the weather is going to be like. I had trained a fair amount at home, but mostly on flat...
Did you start at St. Jean? I'm trying to gauge just how hard those first couple of days are. (You really never can tell from posts because they differ so greatly.) I wasn't going to - because I found it tough hiking the Machu Piccu trail the first day, hiking up a mountain and carrying a...
Introducing myself - a reasonably fit, older hiker doing the Camino for the first time. I'll be starting off in St. Jean May 4th and hope to go the whole way. As I get older I find myself beginning to listen to the little internal whispers (and louder statements by external society) saying...
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