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Well, on my second time out of SJPP in late April 1998 I ended up in the middle of a snow and hail storm on the Route Napoleon. Had not even think of checking the weather report. Luckily it was a short one, but the path down to Roncesvalles was just 'slipping and sliding'. In those condisions it...
The location info in Avatar was somehow transported from my old user Id or something, from years ago, but as I had not visited the Forum in ages, forgot the password and had changed my email, so I was not able to sign in any more and had to create a new account. Had not noticed that, so now it...
Hi, Paul!
Interesting those Google results 😁. I am from Finland, althoug nowadays try to spend the winters in Spain. Unfortunately that did not work due to Covid this winter.
Of course there was less services, but I still think my earlier caminos 1996, -97, -98, 2001 and 2002 were in a way more pleasant than the ons in 2007 and 2011. As there were so much more people, it felt that you would be walking in a constant line. Also the race to refugios was at times...
St.-Jean-PdP to Leon August-September 1996. Had only read a newspaper article, so knew practically nothing about the route, so I walked the first day along the main road all the way to Roncesvalles. As I was used to carry a 20-30 kg pack in Lappland, I also had way too heavy a backpack - it was...
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