A mix of GR10, GR11 and the high route
We took our sweet time waking up and even had coffee, it was colder than expected considering we were so far down in the valley, which is a little funny because it’s still rather high up, just not compared to where were camping the past couple nights. The walk out to town was rather boring […]
Overnight: the night started fine, I actually slept really well until about 2 AM , then the stars were looking nice so I got out and took pictures. The wind was strong, but mostly just making a lot of noise moving the tent around, until a big gust came and pulled up two sets of […]
Sometime around 1 AM I woke up and the sky was full of bright flashes. I knew a storm was coming, and it looked powerful based on the constant flashing, but sometimes they pass nearby. As it got brighter Betty woke up and noticed it too, but the stars were still visible. A little while […]
We slept a little late at our hotel, had a delicious breakfast with amazing fresh fruit, really good coffee, and the Spanish toast with tomato sauce (sounds meh, but it’s amazing). We took a shower, and got hiking between 10 and 10:30. We hiked a lot the day before and we knew the next day […]
We woke up earlyish, ate breakfast and got hiking around 8, it was a beautiful day and we headed straight up from the valley to the ridge in good time. Once we got up higher the views just got better and better! Every corner seemed to reveal a new mountain vista. The areas were mostly […]
The original plan was to spend two weeks in the Pyrenees again, but the weather looked terrible for the entire first week, so we decided to skip the first week, and choose to work on things at home instead. We learned a lot from our last Pyrenees adventure, so this time we didn’t plan to […]
My friend Holger (who I hiked with in New Zealand) mentioned after I posted about the tolls on the way down that there were smaller highways that we could use to avoid the massive tolls, and sent a couple links to an area which looked cool, so instead of traveling back on the tollway, we […]
I woke up around 5:30 and saw the moon, which was light, but not so light that it should ruin the stars, so I got out and took a couple shots. The wind picked up a bit at night, the forecast was for wind, but not too bad until tomorrow. By the time we packed […]
It was cold overnight, there was frost on the ground when we woke up, but we were comfortable. I woke up first and went out to check out sunrise. I walked around the lake to get a better view, but the clouds were gray, so I started back, but on my way back in realized […]
The last time we hiked from Cauterets we met a couple in the refuge we started in and they gave us a bunch of tips about where we could go. So we made a loop beginning and ending in Cauterets with lots of possible variations. We set out on the GR 10 out of town, […]