Simon Shum
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- 2019
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I think this may possibly refer to tourists starting at the bottom of the gorge and following the gorge upsteram as far as the walkways go. then turning around.Very slippery, very steep, quite scary,. very lovely. (tourists who'd walked up the easy way) but very beautiful.
the last part of the descent from the road into the gorge is indeed a very steep and fairly eroded path....
how long would you say the descent is, by ear? 100m? 200m? would it be possible to avoid part of it by zig-zaging a bit down the slope on one's own? (I would really hate to miss the goodies after the descent.)I would go a little further and say that there is nothing on that descent that even qualifies as a path, it is just jagged rocks. You just have to pick your way little by little. No doubt about which way to go though!
how long would you say the descent is, by ear? 100m? 200m? would it be possible to avoid part of it by zig-zaging a bit down the slope on one's own? (I would really hate to miss the goodies after the descent.)
the offshoot I see is circled in yellow. I theorize that because it hits the gorge higher up, there could be less of the tricky descent involved.I can’t see what you are referring to on that map, though, when you talk about an offshoot to the L. But my memory is pretty clear that there was just one way to go, and that was down!
I remember it well. I wrote at the time ' This section is another spectacular route and has a part that is very steep heading down to a narrow way through a gorge. Quite vertiginous and it would be dangerous in the wet.” I think it took about 30 to 40 mins to scramble down the steep section taking it very slowly. As Laurie said, it is not really a path, although the route is fairly obvious.View attachment 77259View attachment 77260View attachment 77261
I thought that section was one of the loveliest parts of a camino that I have ever walked and would definitely not want to miss it.Wow, great pictures, @MikeJS. That first picture is the best for showing prospective Olvidado peregrinos what the descent looks like. It`s hard to decipher what’s up and what’s down in that picture, except for the lovely little bit of sky light to help us out. So anyone who is going to walk that way is forewarned! Having said that, I think an extra bit of effort is well worth it, since the alternative misses the gorge, the beech forest, the mines, and Ciñera. Buen camino, Laurie
Totally agree! The combination of that enchanted beech forest, plus the view of the gorge once you’re down there, not to mention the chance to see the entrance to an old mine shaft left just as it was when the mine was working — lovely, as you say.The rewards are lovely.
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