Mud and more mud

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bryans

Member

• May 29, 2015

• #1

There is a large section of very muddy paths between Gernika and Bilbao.
As a result this section requires great care and you may consider avoiding it.

 

VNwalking

Out walking

Donating Member

Time of past OR future Camino

Yearly and Various 2014-2019
Via Monastica 2022

• May 29, 2015

• #2

"Mud, mud, glorious mud! Nothing quite like it for cooling the blood.
So follow me, follow, down to the hallow
and there let us wollow in glorious mud! "

Take care, yes, absolutely, Avoid?...well...just my opinion, but it's all part of the package. It can actually be fun, and there are always showers (well, unless you are in San Juan de Ortega in March after a day of this; then it's too cold to imagine going out to the showers...)

(And thanks, Flanders and Swan...your refrain has lightened up a lot of muddy days!)

 

Last edited: May 29, 2015

bystander

Veteran Member

• May 29, 2015

• #3

Viranani said:

but it's pall art of the package.

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Worrying typo, Viranani!

pall noun
a cloth, often of velvet, for spreading over a coffin, bier, or tomb.

 

VNwalking

Out walking

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Time of past OR future Camino

Yearly and Various 2014-2019
Via Monastica 2022

• May 29, 2015

• #4

Aaak! What a funny slip, and I hope not a Freudian one! (It actually makes a certain sense, which is incredible.)
And since it's immortalized in your post, I edited the original.

 

Rajy62

Active Member

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Frances 2013, Norte/primitivo 2014, vdlp (2015)

• May 29, 2015

• #5

I went through the same last year. It is not fun to walk in muddy wet cold feet. This is when one would appreciate a mid height structured boots...people were loosing their shoes. ...

 

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rainalready

New Member

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North route, May 2015

• May 31, 2015

• #6

I just trudged through the mud a couple of days ago in sandals with many near misses too -- thankfully I had a hiking pole. There is also quite a bit of mud pre-Guernika too (i.e. from Markina-Xemein onwards), some people walked along the BI-2224 road instead, it is well-marked as it's the cycle camino route.