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Thank you, Mike, I'm so glad I saw this thread. Last night I got the hard sell for the coastal route from Pepe, the very helpful hospitalaro in Soto de Luiña. Normally I would have automatically followed his advice, but having read the above, and it being an almost perfect autumn morning when I left today at 8am, the upper route beckoned. And I'm so glad it did. It was one of the best mornings of this camino (and there have been many very good ones). Up onto the ridge, a bit puffed, by 10am, with the sea down on one side and the inland hills on the other, just breathtakingly beautiful. The mójones at virtually every fork made getting lost almost impossible. The descent to San Pelayo was worse than the ascent, but nothing serious - and the only person I met all morning, a farmer on a handsome Lusitano, looking for his goats, kindly advised me to keep to the forest tracks, which come out at the same place, rather than take the now slightly overgrown camino.Just a little hoof to let this years pilgrims see another option which is not in the English guides.
Hi, Alan, that looks very beautiful, and I wonder whether you recorded your GPS tracks because that would be one way people could find it. Someone needs to talk to Pepe! Buen camino.Thank you, Mike, I'm so glad I saw this thread. Last night I got the hard sell for the coastal route from Pepe, the very helpful hospitalaro in Soto de Luiña. Normally I would have automatically followed his advice, but having read the above, and it being an almost perfect autumn morning when I left today at 8am, the upper route beckoned. And I'm so glad it did. It was one of the best mornings of this camino (and there have been many very good ones). Up onto the ridge, a bit puffed, by 10am, with the sea down on one side and the inland hills on the other, just breathtakingly beautiful. The mójones at virtually every fork made getting lost almost impossible. The descent to San Pelayo was worse than the ascent, but nothing serious - and the only person I met all morning, a farmer on a handsome Lusitano, looking for his goats, kindly advised me to keep to the forest tracks, which come out at the same place, rather than take the now slightly overgrown camino.
All in all I really can't understand why they are trying to kill this option. To be taken with some care, and not in bad weather, but really nothing that any moderately fit walker should have a problem with.
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I recorded the trail on wikiloc, which for some reason stopped working half way through, so the trail is described in 2 sections: Soto de Luiña to Busmarzo: 8 miles, 3 hours, 3000' of ascent; and then the downward bit, called "Soto de Luiña to Cadavedo part 2": 5 miles, 2200' of descent. 2.5 hours. If searching for the trail names doesn't work, they are also listed under my name (Alan Sykes).Hi, Alan, that looks very beautiful, and I wonder whether you recorded your GPS tracks because that would be one way people could find it. Someone needs to talk to Pepe! Buen camino.
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