LeelooLizzie
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- Hopefully Camino del Norte/Primitivo Spring or Autumn 2018.
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Hi, and welcome to the forum! I walked from Irun to Santiago 8 Oct to 19 Nov 2016 and had lovely, perfect weather all through October. Then had a week of rain in November. Sunny again, but cold, into Santiago. Might be completely different next year!
Jill
Hi everyone!!
This is my first post - finally - but I've been lurking on these threads for quite some time and finally decided to start an account and ask a question!
I keep seeing conflicting information regarding weather for the Camino del Norte / Primitivo (I plan to do the whole 860km) for Autumn experiences. My situation is that I'm currently a student (second degree - I chose poorly the first time, so am returning), and so I can only take off Spring quarter 2018 (March-May), or Autumn 2018 (Sept-Nov).
Sooner would be preferable, for reasons:
1) I LOVE hiking in the rain,
2) I want to start my camino as soon as I'm able, and because
3) I read these threads and see the videos and hear your stories and long, yearn, need to do this walk.
But March is SOO soon, so I thought Autumn would be a good compromise.
However, I've seen threads that describe del Norte route during Autumn as:
- just rainy,
- as sunny and perfect, and
- snowy and miserable. Conflicting accounts, all.
I'm all up for rain - even 15-20 straight days of it. I *want* that challenge. But I'm not confident that I'm prepared (emotionally or gear wise) for snow or sub-zero exposures.
So, I'm starting to freak out and second guess my decision to go in Autumn, even though it would financially - and school-wise - make more sense.
Can anyone offer some more solid experiences from their Autumn-specific journeys? I understand the weather will vary along the entirety of the 800-some-odd-kms, but is snow really a true concern for September/October/November specifically? (I have no desire to still be in Spain for December... at least not walking it.)
Thank you all SO much. I'm so excited to finally post my very own thread. ... Hopefully I figure out how to see the follow up responses and whatnot.
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