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  1. MTtoCamino

    Calendar APRIL 2025 Start - Check in here!

    Sjpdp ✅ Note from Moderator - Please use this format: April 10 @MTtoCamino (SJPP). It makes it so much easier for us to copy the information and paste it into the first post. Especially when we have many new posts.
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    450,000 Pilgrims

    Part of walking this pilgrimage is the wonderful way you have to you have to use your mind to work thru obstacles so it does not matter the statistics. The reason folks worry is due to fear. Use faith to understand no matter what the obstacles you can do this.
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    Refrigerated medicine Transport services

    Thank you for your response, I think she will get her prescription & once we are in Spain we will find a pharmacy in Pamplona to find out how easy it may or may not be. Her doc is looking at oral meds as well. Like all things on the Camino faith seems to open up obstacles. But we still have to...
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    Re-designing My Sleep System for Weight and Comfort

    We bought our Costco down blankets a couple years ago. They are basically the sz of a lrg throw. I am the same I never kept my sleeping bag zipped. But the issue of getting up in the middle of the night 10 years ago has changed, now it is not uncommon to have to get up a couple times during the...
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    Re-designing My Sleep System for Weight and Comfort

    Great timing on this discussion. My wife & I are planning on using a sea to summit silk liner & a down blanket from Costco. That said we have not physically tried them. So that is in the works before our April walk. What I found walking the same time of year 10 years ago was that I only needed...
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    Osprey Talon 33 Lifetime Guarantee

    My last Camino I used a 48L Kestrel, in April I intend on using an older Talon 33, that I am sending into Osprey as the load straps no longer stay in place. I am curious if any of you with this pack had issues keeping a rain cover on the older non attached lid? If you did what did you use to...
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    Refrigerated medicine Transport services

    I have reserved responses from the transport companies one was they think so & the other a definite no. This is my wife’s med that is for her severe Arthritis. It is a pen. I wanted the information before she visits her doc so she can discuss it. I have thought about the Pharmacies along the...
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    Refrigerated medicine Transport services

    Does anyone know if the bag transport companies could keep & maintain a refrigerated drug & deliver it every 7 days? For Arthritis
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    Lost & Found Lost Swiss Knife in Torres del Rio

    I lost my knife as well .. 10 years ago, very good bread knife it was, mine was easy to replace once I returned home. Funny how such a small item can be missed on the Camino. I wish you luck getting it returned.
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    Can I Walk the Camino Without a Smartphone?

    Yes I did not have one. It is as basic as determining what to put in your pack. The question you need to ask is will you need one once your off the Camino. As the world outside has changed to resources required to have one for travel. If your flip phone can get train schedules, bus schedules...
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    LIVE from the Camino Gun fire? Cannon? Fireworks??

    lol yep had the same experience, made me hit the dirt, I was just back from the desert. Just so unexpected.
  12. MTtoCamino

    56 y/o, traveling alone & so nervous

    I walked at 54 (2014) on my first Camino, my wife could not get off work. I was never alone, as you will meet others. Next spring my wife & I will return to do the Francis from St John Pied De Port. We live in Missoula. Madrid is a busy city but you will do fine. The younger folks almost always...
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    Pilgrims Behaving Badly - Is the Camino Frances full?

    This is such a sad message. I can only pray that the no respect visitors will become bored with walking, or find the error of their ways. Living in a fire prone place the effect of having to stay indoors to avoid the smoke is not fun. Not to mention the fear of losing a home.
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    10 years on

    Yes it been 10 years for myself. Planning on returning with my wife in 2025. Hopefully it will work itself out like the last.
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    And now to the backpack..

    That’s great you got some help, nothing better than a thru hiker. I am sure you have noticed the lighter gear pushes pricing higher. In my opinion for the Camino the priority for gear should be: Shoes Pack Rain gear Water container (don’t ever allow it to run dry) Sleeping bag/or blanket...
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    And now to the backpack..

    Everything mentioned above I agree with, yet I still would reuse my osprey 48L Kestral. Just because I use it here in Montana in the backcountry. I would recommend you take each fully loaded for a good 3-4 hour hike to see what pack fits the best. That way you can adjust as needed. You won’t...
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    Alternative ways to arrive in Roncesvalles

    Maybe keep it simple & just walk the Norte starting in Bilbao? However the bus system is very good so riding back to Pamplona should be the best bet. Another Idea is to just Start in Pamplona.
  18. MTtoCamino

    Half a wild boar

    I had an experience where a fellow had a deer run in front of him that he hit with his car on the Camino. He stopped & dressed it. I assisted him. The front shoulders were ruined by the impact. I gave him credit for using what he could. Unless you are an experienced game biologist that can...
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    Best time/temperature to walk the Camino Frances

    When I talk to folks who have walked numerous routes & locations over multiple years, no year is the same for rain/snow. Yet I do take notice that some settle into a fall walk Oct- Nov or an Early April Thru May. Then you meet the folks who really like the heat. July - August. Personally I...
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    'Nobody owes you anything' Really?

    Like many of you, I had times that I found emotionally hard/harsh from others. It is all part of the Camino, a person has to basically suck it up & walk on. As the vast encounters are so much more positive. In the big picture we get way more out of the Camino than the few exceptions. The...

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