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How many days all up are you planning to walk? All the way to Santiago?
I presume part of the trip is about walking with your friends?
So why not just walk with your friends and skip the parts that might be hard on your knee?
What do you find hardest on your knee? Uphill? Downhill? Hard surfaces?
An option for example could be:
Walk part of Day 1 up to Orisson. And catch a lift back down with Express Bouricourt. (Book in SJPDP)
Jump ahead to Roncesvalles and meet your friends there, avoiding the steep down hill section.
Walk to Alto de Erro or just to Bizkarreta, and get a taxi to Zubiri avoiding the steep downhill. (Taxi numbers are displayed there)
The walk into Pamplona should be OK for you, but you cut that short too.
The infrastructure on the Frances is good, so getting buses and taxis along the way would help you to keep up with your friends.
Just a thought.
There is the daily (in season) ALSA/CONDA bus from SJPdP to Pamplona (CONDA is partly owned by the bigger ALSA.) It will be a fare of 22 euros. But there is another bus that you may want to take (though it only runs Tuesdays and Fridays.) PLMautocares runs between Pamplona, Valcarlos and Arneguy (Pekotxeta.) You do the gentle walk from SJPdP to Arneguy or Valcarlos and then bus over the hard part.Question I have is, is there a bus that travels the Camino Frances that we could travel SJPdP to Pamplona, while the hikers walk the same route? Or should we travel separately to Madrid and bus it to Pamplona while the others go via Paris?
I may not, but will be 73, and this is my 5th right knee replacement...just planning ahead for “what-ifs”.Like others, I didn't find the Pyrenees any harder on my knees that some other sections of the Camino Frances.
I’m planning on five weeks +/- travel time from Dulles and back to Las Vegas. Lot is going to depend on how the knee holds up in training beforehand. But have thought about using bus if necessary. Thanks for the corroboration, though.How many days all up are you planning to walk? All the way to Santiago?
I presume part of the trip is about walking with your friends?
So why not just walk with your friends and skip the parts that might be hard on your knee?
What do you find hardest on your knee? Uphill? Downhill? Hard surfaces?
An option for example could be:
Walk part of Day 1 up to Orisson. And catch a lift back down with Express Bouricourt. (Book in SJPDP)
Jump ahead to Roncesvalles and meet your friends there, avoiding the steep down hill section.
Walk to Alto de Erro or just to Bizkarreta, and get a taxi to Zubiri avoiding the steep downhill. (Taxi numbers are displayed there)
The walk into Pamplona should be OK for you, but you cut that short too.
The infrastructure on the Frances is good, so getting buses and taxis along the way would help you to keep up with your friends.
Just a thought.
Tried to find an answer in the archives, but no joy! There are 4 of us planning to do the Frances in late Sept/Oct. 2 are in great shape, my neighbor the Superintendant at Cedar Breaks Nat. Monument and his wife. The other 2, including me, are not in the same league. We would like to fly into Paris and start at SJPdP. I know with my dodgy knee that the Pyrenees are a no-go, and #4, another neighbor feels the same.
Question I have is, is there a bus that travels the Camino Frances that we could travel SJPdP to Pamplona, while the hikers walk the same route? Or should we travel separately to Madrid and bus it to Pamplona while the others go via Paris?
Thanks for any assistance you experienced peregrino/a’s can give us.
Hi Kanga Can you let me know what bus runs from Madrid airport to Pamplona? Do you know if the train from Madid airport will go to Pamplona? Thanks. MaizEven if starting in SJPDP I find it cheaper to go from Madrid than Paris - there is a bus direct from Madrid airport to Pamplona, and a simple change at the bus station in Pamplona to a bus that goes direct to SJPDP.
Regardless of the way you make your way to SJPDP - there is definitely a bus that travels back to Pamplona and which you could take (in season). But you would then be three or four days ahead of your friends. The bus takes one hour and 45 minutes, the walk takes three or four days!
There are intermediate stops.
(Edited) I did think of sharing a taxi, but from SJPDP all the way to Pamplona would be pretty expensive.
PLM Autocares has a Monday to Saturday bus to Pamplona leaving T4 at noon (12:15). I think the cost is a bit less than 40 euros. There may be other lines too.Can you let me know what bus runs from Madrid airport to Pamplona?
Tried to find an answer in the archives, but no joy! There are 4 of us planning to do the Frances in late Sept/Oct. 2 are in great shape, my neighbor the Superintendant at Cedar Breaks Nat. Monument and his wife. The other 2, including me, are not in the same league. We would like to fly into Paris and start at SJPdP. I know with my dodgy knee that the Pyrenees are a no-go, and #4, another neighbor feels the same.
Question I have is, is there a bus that travels the Camino Frances that we could travel SJPdP to Pamplona, while the hikers walk the same route? Or should we travel separately to Madrid and bus it to Pamplona while the others go via Paris?
Thanks for any assistance you experienced peregrino/a’s can give us.
I agree. I thought that walk down from Alton De Perdon the worst.Good points to raise Robo.
Personally I found the walk down the rocks from Alto De Perdon (just outside Pamplona) to Uterga far harder on the knees that the walk from SJPdP to Roncesvalles.
Hi Kanga Can you let me know what bus runs from Madrid airport to Pamplona? Do you know if the train from Madid airport will go to Pamplona? Thanks. Maiz
Hi Kanga Can you let me know what bus runs from Madrid airport to Pamplona? Do you know if the train from Madid airport will go to Pamplona? Thanks. Maiz
Loose downhills should not bother me. With size 16shoes, I may just ski down them!
It was nasty, indeed. Here's what that back side of Alto de Perdon looks like - the photo looks less steep than it is. But...I found the first time down much harder than the second, when I knew what was coming.I thought that walk down from Alton De Perdon the worst.
@Maiz
Thanks for the photo. How soon after leaving Pamplona does this take place? How long does a careful descent take and what advice can you provide?
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