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Well it seems to me that you have some trouble in understating what I write since what you understand is the opposite of my words.
I never said I condemned them for not having the right gear for "mountain expedition". I said exactly the contrary. Nobody, including me, carries the gear for...
Well, sorry but I totally disagree with you.
They were at mid August, hence mid summer. They got into trouble because they didn't had, consciously or unconsciously, the updated weather information on high Napoleon Route which indicated that there were snowstorm conditions for the next day...
Just a little episode...
In 2019 i finished CF on 1st of August and although we didn't get the scorching heat we had this summer, on average the temperatures were above 30° all over the route.
Three weeks later a group of 20 something Irish pilgrims had to be rescued near Izandorre refuge on...
Meteoblue and Windy for sure 👍. And I also add the Meteogram app. It is all about having a good selection of weather information providers that deal well with fast changing altitude weather conditions.
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