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Thank you for your reply, it is really appreciated.Just walked Le Puy to Conques at the start of June. Apart from one chilly day with some drizzle we were walking in temperatures of 37 degrees some days! A silk sheet liner was all that was needed at night as all places provide blankets. The icebreakers are great as tshirt or inner layer. Sounds like you are well prepared. Enjoy.
Hi Gittiharre,Hi, I have walked the Le Puy Route through all of September in 2009 and 2010 the Via Gebennensis and Robert Louis Stevenson Trail around the same time. I took a silk sleeping bag liner, there were blankets everywhere in gites. I walked in Shorts and took a pair of light 3/4 pants for the evening, a long sleeved merino lightweight, would be better than a short sleeved one and I took a lightweight fleece and the Lite Altus Raincoat/cape. I was totally warm enough. I had a buff, which I could put over the ears in cold wind. I did not bring gloves, no need. The coldest area potentially is the Aubrac and that is early on in the walk. I had great weather apart from a couple of days of heavy rain, warm though.
Hard to know though how it will be this year, weather these days is all over the place. Gitti
Hi Mark, I carry my pack and the weight is around 6.5 kg including water and picnic lunch. It has taken me several walks to get it down to that. Happy to send you our itinerary by email. Just send me a private message with your address and I will reply. I/we started slowly and increased distances, it is a good plan for sure! Gitti
Hi Mark, I carry my pack and the weight is around 6.5 kg including water and picnic lunch. It has taken me several walks to get it down to that. Happy to send you our itinerary by email. Just send me a private message with your address and I will reply. I/we started slowly and increased distances, it is a good plan for sure! Gitti
Hi Mark, I carry my pack and the weight is around 6.5 kg including water and picnic lunch. It has taken me several walks to get it down to that. Happy to send you our itinerary by email. Just send me a private message with your address and I will reply. I/we started slowly and increased distances, it is a good plan for sure! Gitti
Hi GittiHi Mark, I carry my pack and the weight is around 6.5 kg including water and picnic lunch. It has taken me several walks to get it down to that. Happy to send you our itinerary by email. Just send me a private message with your address and I will reply. I/we started slowly and increased distances, it is a good plan for sure! Gitti
Hi MarkHi
My wife and I start our walk on 24 August and hope to be in St Jean by 10 October. Not sure what sort of weather to expect along the way. We will be prepared for cold weather with thermals, icebreaker layers and outer shells to keep out rain and wind.
Will that do?
Also, planning to take a sleeping sheet and stay in a variety of accommodation; do we also need a sleeping bag? (I needed one last year when I walked from St Jean to Santiago in late April to June)
many thanks
Happy Mark
Hi SusieHi Mark
I am starting 23 August in Le Puy and have taken all Gitti good advice....hope you bump into you and your wife on the Way....jumping out of my skin already...Cheers Susie
My wife and I start our walk on 24 August and hope to be in St Jean by 10 October. Not sure what sort of weather to expect along the way. We will be prepared for cold weather with thermals, icebreaker layers and outer shells to keep out rain and wind. Will that do?
DavidTake a punt mate , no rain until Leon.
Sleeping liner only.
We commenced with 3 fifteen km days and it worked after the long flight
Enjoy this lovely way, completely different from Spanish and the section until Cahors will have the most walkers.
Many will drop off at Conques and you will have the 4 day - one week french walkers for company very often.
Bon Chemin Mark,
David
Hi RyanIn August, the weather probably won't be too terribly cold. When I hiked from Le Puy (I started August 11th, if I remember correctly), it was quite warm and for one particular week, completely miserably hot. Sleeping outdoors with nothing more than a T-shirt was a joy! But October.... you could certainly get some cold weather, I would imagine.
In the month or so it took me to reach Saint Jean, it only rained on me once during the day. It rained more often at night, but I was indoors for those times.
Needless to say, your experiences may vary. =) But that's what I had to deal with in August and September. (By October, I was deep into Spain--so I don't actually have personal knowledge of October weather in France.)
Buen camino!
-- Ryan
David
thanks for your information. I did not expect anywhere near the numbers of the Spanish side and am surprised to hear about the local popularity of the walk from Le Puy. We are following Gittihare's advice and have booked through to Conques to make sure we have a bed each night. Hopefully after that it will be easy to find accommodation. When they want a deposit it makes it difficult to arrange from Australia. Any tips on how to do this? Mark
Hi MarkHi Susie
we will be in Le Puy on the 22 and 23 August and start walking on the 24th.
Might see you before you start. We are staying at the Grand Seminare near the cathederal
mark
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