The Plodding Pensioner
The Plodding Pensioner
- Time of past OR future Camino
- Frances(2019)
I used the Dintaman & Landis guide to walk the Frances route this autumn and was very pleased with its content.
I appreciate that most guides will give you a general indication of each stage's starting elevation, maximum elevation and finishing elevation, however, I am wondering if any topographically savvy forum member has ever broken down each stage into total ascent (and total descent). To illustrate, a fictional stage may start at 500' elevation; max out at 600' elevation; and finish at 500' elevation. This would normally be reported as having a total elevation of 100', however, if over the course of this stage you walked through 4 valleys that dropped down to 100' elevation and rose again to 600' elevation, the total elevation walked would have been at least 2000'!
So, I'm wondering if anyone has ever broken down each stage into each small ascent and descend in order to total calculate the total amount of ascending (and descending) elevation covered?
I appreciate that most guides will give you a general indication of each stage's starting elevation, maximum elevation and finishing elevation, however, I am wondering if any topographically savvy forum member has ever broken down each stage into total ascent (and total descent). To illustrate, a fictional stage may start at 500' elevation; max out at 600' elevation; and finish at 500' elevation. This would normally be reported as having a total elevation of 100', however, if over the course of this stage you walked through 4 valleys that dropped down to 100' elevation and rose again to 600' elevation, the total elevation walked would have been at least 2000'!
So, I'm wondering if anyone has ever broken down each stage into each small ascent and descend in order to total calculate the total amount of ascending (and descending) elevation covered?