Options from Orisson

[owms2323]

If you make it to Orisson and the weather turns bad, what are your options?

 

[SYates]

It really depends of the time of year and how bad 'bad' is. The hospitaliers of Orisson are the best ones to advice you in the morning about how to proceed but there is always the road down the mountain to connect with the Valcarlos route. The pilgrims office in SJPdP will give you a map with 'escape routes' for just that case. Buen Camino, SY

 

[Urban Trekker]

It really depends of the time of year and how bad 'bad' is. The hospitaliers of Orisson are the best ones to advice you in the morning about how to proceed but there is always the road down the mountain to connect with the Valcarlos route. The pilgrims office in SJPdP will give you a map with 'escape routes' for just that case. Buen Camino, SY

That's good to know. Thanks Buen Camino

Happy Trails

 

[owms2323]

It really depends of the time of year and how bad 'bad' is. The hospitaliers of Orisson are the best ones to advice you in the morning about how to proceed but there is always the road down the mountain to connect with the Valcarlos route. The pilgrims office in SJPdP will give you a map with 'escape routes' for just that case. Buen Camino, SY

Thanks.

It really depends of the time of year and how bad 'bad' is. The hospitaliers of Orisson are the best ones to advice you in the morning about how to proceed but there is always the road down the mountain to connect with the Valcarlos route. The pilgrims office in SJPdP will give you a map with 'escape routes' for just that case. Buen Camino, SY

Thanks. we are going mid April. We went early Sept 2014 and it was so beautiful, we'd hate to miss it.

 

[Margaret Butterworth]

I met someone who had stayed at Orisson and next day, when the weather turned bad, they were all transported by minibus to the Valcarlos route.

 

[Deleted member 43985]

If bad = snow or icy conditions, then the old adage of 'Pride goeth before a fall' would be something worth considering. Just as the Camino is not a race, it is also not set in stone that one must trek over the Pyrenees. A warm, dry taxi ride to Zubiri or Pamplona is a reasonable alternative and you will still have a million amazing memories to reflect back upon in years to come... as long as you arrive safely

Buen Camino!

 

[GlenysP]

Changed plans not due to the weather, but same information relevant.
I walked 2011 and again September 2015. So when I woke in Orisson at 3am with a bad headache (neck /shoulder issues after car accident) and knowing what was ahead of me, I decided that if I still had it when I woke that morning, then I'd catch a taxi to Roncesvalles. That's what happened. Staff rang Caroline from Bourricot Express to arrange it and she collected me (and another pilgrim with a foot injury) but had to firstly go back for more bags in SJPdP. She explained that she actually may have to take us to the bus due to needing the front seat for bags, but in the end she squeezed all bags into the back and took us in her car to Roncesvalles. So I'm certain that if weather was the issue, I could have at least got back to SJPdP to walk Valcarlos route, or stayed another night in SJPdP alburgue then taxi back to Orisson the next day. All I'm trying to say is that there are ways around any problem just think laterally but keep safety paramount.