yellow stripes as markers

WldWil

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2015 SJPDP - Halfway
2016 Fromista - The other half

• Mar 9, 2016

• #1

I’ve been meaning to ask and cannot find information. When walking the Camino, I would sometimes see markers that were horizontal stripes. Sometimes they were yellow, red or white or all three. At one point there was a yellow line with an x over it clearly showing that it was the wrong way. Often times these may be on a phone pole, sign or post.

I had gotten seriously lost at one point leaving just as daylight (which I normally do not do) because of bad weather coming. I ended up walking a couple miles to a highway and following it into Burgos never seeing an airport or industry area. Perhaps without the wind and sideways rain it would not have been so bad.

Anyone know what these markings are for?

 

Bradypus

Migratory hermit

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Too many and too often!

• Mar 9, 2016

• #2

The horizontal red and white stripes sound like the blazes that mark the GR long-distance paths in France and Spain. The caminos sometimes use sections of the network. When you find blazes of other colours they often mark a more local or regional designated route.

 

Rob the Slob

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Madrid to Santiago (May 2016)

• Mar 9, 2016

• #3

Bradypus said:

The caminos sometimes use sections of the network. When you find blazes of other colours they often mark a more local or regional designated route.

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Like these different paths, all marked with separate symbols, in Luxembourg.

 

WldWil

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2015 SJPDP - Halfway
2016 Fromista - The other half

• Mar 9, 2016

• #4

Here is an example. I saw these quite a bit before Burgos and other places. I was by myself most the day coming into town and started to follow out, but something went wrong. Relying on the arrows sometimes is less than fun sometimes.

 

E

Erian

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Aragonés (2017)

• Mar 9, 2016

• #5

Red&white is Gran Recorrido (GR) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GR_footpath

Yellow&white is Pequeño recorrido (PR) https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pequeño_Recorrido (In Spanish)

 

Seabird

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CF April/May (2016), starting in St. Palais, France

• Mar 10, 2016

• #6

Thanks for posting this.

 

WldWil

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2015 SJPDP - Halfway
2016 Fromista - The other half

• Mar 10, 2016

• #7

That explains a lot. Thanks.

The other time I got messed up was on going pass construction on a roundabout and there were arrows painted on the road by road crews earlier that were faded out to a light yellow. I ended up on a path with 2 fellow pilgrims which ran in the right direction, but took a couple km and a kind local getting us back to the way. I cannot imagine what it may have been like many years earlier.