CaminoKate0214
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- Time of past OR future Camino
- June/July 2015 (CF, 100 miles), June/July 2018 (CP, ~40 miles, too hot!)
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Hi Katie, you having knee issues I would say Pamplona.Hi all,
I walked last year starting from Leon, skipped a bit ahead due to the heat wave and not wanting any more heat exhaustion, and did Sarria to Santiago, 100 miles in all. Not bad for a middle-aged, first time hiker, eh?
I have many months to go before I start summer 2016's Camino, but I wanted to know what others thought of the best place to start?
I had originally wanted to start in SJPdP and go the Valcarlos route. However, I wonder if I could make the Route Napoleon. How steep is it, really? Would someone who is moderately overweight but very active have real issues? And coming down from Roncesvalles -- what about that? I've heard that the way down is super steep and rocky/gravelly. I have knee issues, and now ankle issues (peroneal tendonosis that's healing slowly). A friend suggested I skip ahead and start in Pamplona. I'd really like to walk from the very beginning of the CF. Any ideas, suggestions, advice are most welcome.
I know no matter where I walk from, the Camino will be lovely, because it'll be all new to me, and because it's simply the Camino. Thanks everyone.
Katie
The Camino Frances begins in Roncesvalles on the France-Spain border. You will still get the memorable downhill into Zubiri if you start there.I'd really like to walk from the very beginning of the CF.
I have thought about this at length and after all the thinking, my suggestion is the first step out your door, just joking I am starting at Valencia this time. Buen CaminoHi all,
I walked last year starting from Leon, skipped a bit ahead due to the heat wave and not wanting any more heat exhaustion, and did Sarria to Santiago, 100 miles in all. Not bad for a middle-aged, first time hiker, eh?
I have many months to go before I start summer 2016's Camino, but I wanted to know what others thought of the best place to start?
I had originally wanted to start in SJPdP and go the Valcarlos route. However, I wonder if I could make the Route Napoleon. How steep is it, really? Would someone who is moderately overweight but very active have real issues? And coming down from Roncesvalles -- what about that? I've heard that the way down is super steep and rocky/gravelly. I have knee issues, and now ankle issues (peroneal tendonosis that's healing slowly). A friend suggested I skip ahead and start in Pamplona. I'd really like to walk from the very beginning of the CF. Any ideas, suggestions, advice are most welcome.
I know no matter where I walk from, the Camino will be lovely, because it'll be all new to me, and because it's simply the Camino. Thanks everyone.
Katie
what's the best place to start my Camino?
With knee issues, starting anywhere east of Burgos is still going to present problems: Pamplona to Puente La Reina - you have to negotiate the Alto del Perdon; Estrella to Santo Domingo - lots of up hills and down and then from Belorado to Burgos you have the "joy" of the multiple "altos" between Villafranca Montes to St Juan and then that lovely rocky bit east of Atapuerca. So what do you do? Limit your backpack to 6kg (14 lbs); consider transporting the pack and last be by no means least have two good walking sticks (and use them) and take the Camino very slow and steady. If this means less than 10 km per day then so be it. You will know from the previous Camino what your body is telling you. Buen Camino.Hi Katie, you having knee issues I would say Pamplona.
But at the end you yourself have to make a decision.
Wish you well and a Buen Camino, Peter.
Not sure how many days you have, have you considered another route (Portuguese?), which may be a bit flatter than the French one, which is really only flat in the Meseta.Hi all,
I walked last year starting from Leon, skipped a bit ahead due to the heat wave and not wanting any more heat exhaustion, and did Sarria to Santiago, 100 miles in all. Not bad for a middle-aged, first time hiker, eh?
I have many months to go before I start summer 2016's Camino, but I wanted to know what others thought of the best place to start?
I had originally wanted to start in SJPdP and go the Valcarlos route. However, I wonder if I could make the Route Napoleon. How steep is it, really? Would someone who is moderately overweight but very active have real issues? And coming down from Roncesvalles -- what about that? I've heard that the way down is super steep and rocky/gravelly. I have knee issues, and now ankle issues (peroneal tendonosis that's healing slowly). A friend suggested I skip ahead and start in Pamplona. I'd really like to walk from the very beginning of the CF. Any ideas, suggestions, advice are most welcome.
I know no matter where I walk from, the Camino will be lovely, because it'll be all new to me, and because it's simply the Camino. Thanks everyone.
Katie
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