Pajares to Campomanes elevation

[Kiwi-family]

9.3km into this section you can head up the hill and then wander along beautiful paths for a seemingly endless amount of time (maybe it seemed so long because we had eaten only a muesli bar for breakfast and were starving!) OR you can follow the national road. Looking on the map it seems to follow the river - does that mean it is also pretty flat? I ask because I remember the final descent into Campomanes (oh how I remember it - I had to walk back up it again to find socks my son had dropped and then down again!!!!) was exceptionally steep and I do not think my father-in-law would manage it. However, if the road path is undulating at most, I think he might be able to attempt the Salvador route (if we took ten days to do it!)
So does anyone have elevation details for that section? And is the route on the road or on a nearby path?

 

[enderjace]

 

[Rebekah Scott]

the road path is pretty heavy too, and you have trucks roaring past your shoulder. There's another, less-used path (waymarked) that stays to the eastern side of the valley, it makes use of the highway toward the end, down into Fierros. It may be a bit more "undulating," but I recall it being damn steep in places, too... with cows walking loose! Once you get to Fierros you are on flat highway, following along the river valley, It is noisy and concrete underfoot and misery when you've had no coffee yet... but it gets you there.

 

[Castilian]

An altimetry of the national road from Campomanes to Pajares pass can be found on this link (Pay attention to the point in the altimetry where it says Pto de Pajares because the full altimetry ends in Brañilín -out of the route for you-):

http://www.altimetrias.net/aspbk/verPuerto.asp?id=330

P.S.: BTW, that web is a great web to look for altimetries of Spanish paved mountain passes and climbs.

 

[Kiwi-family]

Sounds like I should be satisfied with walking Pamplona to Leon with him! No point killing him when the purpose of the walk is to celebrate that he is alive after a near-deadly spinal infection!!!!