I am freaking out about this bit of the camino! I know that the guide says not to take the highway route but has anyone walked this way instead? I would hate my camino to finish before I'd even started.
Is the answer to reroute the "recommended" Camino on the basis that it is an issue where even those who take care injure themselves (no doubt there are other difficult/dangerous paths but this one gets more publicity) - no doubt pilgrims in...
Almost certainly they would have walked another route. Quite likely similar to the current road. The present Camino Frances is often on smaller more difficult paths because the easier routes in previous centuries have become roads for vehicle...
Taking the road route could have that result. The N-135 from the intersection with the Camino at the Alto de Erro is two-lane blacktop with no shoulders or verges. Street View on Godgl.maps will give you a idea of what it looks like. There are...
My uninformed guess is that much of the erosion on the way to Zubiri (the "dragon teeth" part and the steep "bare large smooth rocks" part towards the end) is not only due to the rains but due to the hundreds and hundreds of pilgrim's feet that...
Thoughts are with the perigrino for a safe recovery on that stretch 2014 young lad slipped on it later met his friend said he was recovering in hospital his friend mentioned dehydration was the cause of the slip along with the environmental...
I hate to say it, but when I go again, I may actually start in Pamplona just to avoid that section from Roncesvalles to Zubiri. I love everything else about that section but for me it the descent probably isn't even worth the risk! (I did it in...
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