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Having slogged through France for a month, and now Spain, I would like to provide some information to those who are new to a pilgrimage.
Today I walked on hard pack adobe, sometimes with fresh boot prints in dust.
They were next to boot prints an inch deep from the sodden earth two weeks ago from weeks of rain (on the Camino Aragones).
The volcanic ash that is Spain, typically in red or grey, is hard trail when it is dry, and slippery mud when it is wet.
Expect good footing to go bad when it rains for a few days, and don't be afraid to road walk in bad conditions. A woman broke her leg going into Oloron-Ste. Marie two weeks ago when she slipped on the mud. Local advice had been to road walk, and she ignored it to be authentic.
Today I walked on hard pack adobe, sometimes with fresh boot prints in dust.
They were next to boot prints an inch deep from the sodden earth two weeks ago from weeks of rain (on the Camino Aragones).
The volcanic ash that is Spain, typically in red or grey, is hard trail when it is dry, and slippery mud when it is wet.
Expect good footing to go bad when it rains for a few days, and don't be afraid to road walk in bad conditions. A woman broke her leg going into Oloron-Ste. Marie two weeks ago when she slipped on the mud. Local advice had been to road walk, and she ignored it to be authentic.