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    Preparing for My First Camino Journey: Question about Microspikes in April

    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...
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    When was your first Camino?

    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...
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    When was your first Camino?

    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.
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    When was your first Camino?

    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...
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    When was your first Camino?

    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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