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Biking during Christmas

doctor_robert

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So I have walked from Burgos to Santiago de Compostela in Febraruy before. I found some good tickets to go back to Spain during Christmas and have already bought them. My choice is should I try to bike the whole Camino Frances or just walk from SJPP to Burgos (fill in from my previous trip).

I am 100% fine walking during the winter, but have recently gotten into biking and would like to look at that option.

What is it like biking during the winter?
 
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I did a walk last December and the weather was beautiful.
But the weeks before and after were full of ice, wind, and snow. Biking over O Cebreiro, or down from Roncesvalles or Foncebadon? I wouldn´t want to try that!

Reb.
 
Rebekah Scott said:
Biking over O Cebreiro, or down from Roncesvalles or Foncebadon? I wouldn´t want to try that!

I think coming off those mountains would be a bit of a pain under good conditions as well.

Actually the only snow I encountered was on O Cebreiro and Foncebadon and we had to walk the roads. It seemed fine for biking, but I was only worried about traveling at 3-4 km/h and not bike speeds so my perspective might be off.

We did have some very strong winds coming off O Cebreiro that might could knock a bike over. We did have take a day off in O Cebreiro because the winds appeared to be over 100 km/h when we got there.
 
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