O Cebreiro in the snow

[ivar]

O Cebreiro, February 2015 by ivar posted A moment ago

 

[Dutch]

Holy peep! I'll take my ski's next time. WAUW!

 

[Dutch]

O cebreiro looks so small. I know its not big, but this looks just tiny. Wonder wich building the municipal is. Who knows? Not the one all the way in the back on right, is it? Or is it.

 

[SYates]

That is the one, the big rectangular building in the back on the right side of the screen. Buen Camino to all shivering pilgrims! SY

 

[Al the optimist]

Thanks Ivar. As we sit at home in mid winter wishing we were on the Camino a touch of realism to help us appreciate being in the warm.

 

[Peter Fransiscus]

O Cebreiro, February 2015 by ivar posted A moment ago

I'am glad to be at home and not on the Camino at the moment . So much snow , we don't have this in the Netherlands at the moment . All the best to you all.

 

[Dutch]

Just wondering for who knows, with so much snow, is the path out of o'cebreiro walkable?

 

[ivar]

Just wondering for who knows, with so much snow, is the path out of o'cebreiro walkable?

I talked to a pilgrim yesterday (that arrive in Santiago 2 days ago). She told me that she did 37km on the day she passed Cebreiro. She ended up in Triacastela (not sure where she started, but it must be before O Cebreiro). She told me she had to walk the road that whole day.

 

[Dutch]

Yep, thats what i thought. Looking at your snowy pic, the path behind the municipal going down must be completely covered in snow snow snow...

 

[Kerstinh47]

Wow, thanks Ivar! So incredibly beautiful to watch and it does look so tiny!

 

[pudgypilgrim]

So beautiful...but it makes me shiver!

 

[Anniesantiago]

Stunning!

 

[ranthr]

Stopped thinking about a wintercamino to get away from the snow here in the north of Norway.

 

[fraluchi]

Interesting! Next Camino I'll carry a drone to check out the path ahead for crowds?!i

 

[Pei2spain]

This is so beautiful, Ivar. Such a different view from way up high!

 

[Rebekah Scott]

I was up there on Sunday, a perfect, sunny day. The snow is head-high in places, a rare sight. The road was clear, but parked up on both sides with carloads of families from the city, taking the dog and kids and granny up to Cebreiro to play in the snow and shoot photos and scream and carry on. HUNDREDS of them, creating traffic chaos for the Guardia Civil, climbing up on the palozzas and sliding down (aaaaugh!) building snowmen and making snow angels, making terrible pests of themselves for some residents, and making thousands of euros for other residents in what's usually a pretty dire time of year.
Pilgrims moving right on through, in all kinds of weather.

 

[KatefromOz]

I have never seen snow.. want to experience it though. if I finish my Camino early November am I likely to see it over Galicia way? it's on the bucket list..and there is no hole in the bucket Dear Liza, Dear Liza...

 

[alexwalker]

I have never seen snow.. want to experience it though.

Be careful of what you wish for, Kate: It may be fullfilled/granted to you. Speaking from Norway on a normal winter day....

 

[Anniesantiago]

Wow Alex! That's Beautiful! I want to paint it!

 

[tploomis]

Gorgeous! But there seemed to be some kind of annoying, mechanical flying insect that kept popping up on my screen!

 

[Brisbanegee]

Two weeks time we start. Wish us luck and hope that the sun comes out and melts it a bit. Can not wait.

 

[judydaisy]

Magical but being a chilly morsel it also makes me kind of glad I'm not there yet!
Good luck to all of you that are out there braving the cold... better than pouring rain though?

 

[tpmchugh]

Been keeping an eye on reports like this one and the webcam at O Cebreiro. Its hard to believe that just over a week ago all the snow was gone then came back with a vengeance over two days of almost non stop snow. Hope it all melts by mid April. Does anyone know how bad the snow accumulation is over Route Napolean. I did see the picture of the sheep in Navarra but not sure where exactly it was taken

 

[tpmchugh]

I was up there on Sunday, a perfect, sunny day. The snow is head-high in places, a rare sight. The road was clear, but parked up on both sides with carloads of families from the city, taking the dog and kids and granny up to Cebreiro to play in the snow and shoot photos and scream and carry on. HUNDREDS of them, creating traffic chaos for the Guardia Civil, climbing up on the palozzas and sliding down (aaaaugh!) building snowmen and making snow angels, making terrible pests of themselves for some residents, and making thousands of euros for other residents in what's usually a pretty dire time of year.
Pilgrims moving right on through, in all kinds of weather.

Thanks for that. I saw the cars on the webcam and thought there might have been some kind of festival or religious ceremony going on. Never thought of the simple answer, 'people wanting to play in the snow'

 

[naplesdon]

Gorgeous! But there seemed to be some kind of annoying, mechanical flying insect that kept popping up on my screen!

Frankly, I hope drones get outlawed.
Recently here in Florida visitors have been using Go-Pro cameras on sticks to photograph endangered wildlife assisted by recorded bird calls on their portable devices.
Hopefully some hacker will create an app to block all this kind of insanity.

 

[Kathy F.]

How very cool!
Wait, did I say "cool"?
I meant COLD!!

 

[code_monkey_001]

Hopefully some hacker will create an app to block all this kind of insanity.

It seems that for now, you have to become one of the enemy to take them down from within.

 

[Anemone del Camino]

Be careful of what you wish for, Kate: It may be fullfilled/granted to you. Speaking from Norway on a normal winter day....

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Love the tagline is your signature- had not noticed it until now. And cute little set of houses. Reminds me of Ushuaia.

 

[Finisterre]

Sky Jack

Mwah ha ha ha!

 

[peregrina2000]

I think northern Spain must be getting Boston's weather this year. Every time Boston gets dumped on, a few days later it seems to fall in Spain. If that's the case, get ready for the next one, another big storm is supposedly heading to Boston in the next day or so! Buen camino, Laurie

 

[JabbaPapa]

Just wondering for who knows, with so much snow, is the path out of o'cebreiro walkable?

I've crossed that pass twice in the worst "normal" conditions possible -- not snow, but the wind and especially the rain.

No matter the conditions on the "official" pilgrim trail, which could very well be impassable under significant snowfall, the tarmac is very unlikely to be impassable.

The only difficult thing about the stage up to O Cebreiro is the steepness of the walking trail -- the principal and secondary tarmac routes around O Cebreiro have so much motor traffic that snow disruptions are unlikely, plus they're MUCH easier (but also much lengthier) than the "official" route up.

The two mountain passes that DO often get blocked by snow are SJPP > Roncesvalles and Cruz de Ferro. Cruz de Ferro is the only one of these three mountain passes to have no easily hiked tarmac option.

 

[Deleted member 3000]

There is snow in O Cebreiro this morning!!