Agree with Camino Tom. If you really need crampons you can rent them when you arrive! Don’t schlepp them with you! Who wants to carry them if they’re not needed?.
For me, Micro-spikes are a good compliment for high places where a trail might be overlaid with patches of snow or ice or where slippery trails need a bit of grab from footwear. Compact, lighter, foldable. There are a variety of manufacturers and...
Packing light and packing for unpleasant weather is not exclusive, you know? There's ultralight packing and there is something people call "stupid light".
(and i had plenty of bad weather on the Primitivo in may...)
I am an Old School Pilgrim, too set in my ways, I can understand and accept the Cell Phone priorities sweeping today's Pilgrim community back in the good old bad days coin-fed albergue computers working as fast as bicycle pedals were good enough...
In my first albergue stay in Oloron-Sainte-Marie on this year's Camino the night before I began I met a Korean woman who had no backpack or bag of any kind. I believe that she had just the clothes that she was wearing plus a silk liner and some...
nothing you wrote I disagree with it is the whole idea of technology and its intrusions as well as pilgrims who are annoying and disrespectful that I was alluding to. You can get rid of pilgrims but the camino in some manner will always be there...
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