Fire Break

[Ricav]

Recently completed the Portugues for my first Camino. While walking the interior route somewhere in northern Portugal, I came onto an area where a fairly recent forest fire coming from the west, had burned right down to the trail....where it stopped. The Camino evidently provided the break necessary to stop the fire from spreading. Interesting!

 

[dougfitz]

I do love your wonderfully romantic reasoning on this. Alternatively the Camino followed a fire break constructed by the forest management organisation to help prevent the spread of forest fires. I will leave it to others which is more likely!!

 

[edumad]

Sometimes all it takes is a break in the unergrowth to not feed the fire. Unfortunately much of the forest in Portugal is unkept with too much bushes and gorse.

 

[Ricav]

I do love your wonderfully romantic reasoning on this. Alternatively the Camino followed a fire break constructed by the forest management organisation to help prevent the spread of forest fires. I will leave it to others which is more likely!![/QUOTE

Works for me... Either way. I know they have been moving more of the Camino off the roads which I greatly appreciated. There is no way for those of us in the US to train for cobbles.

 

[t2andreo]

I prefer to add this to the myriad strange ways Santiago works along the various Camino routes. Whatever, or whoever is to credit for this, it is good that the spread of the fire stopped at the Camino senda.