Weather in August in the mountains

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tbcan

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• Feb 1, 2023

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I am interested in hearing from anyone who has walked the San Salvador in August. I am concerned about the heat of summer and what it is like on this route.

 

jungleboy

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• Feb 1, 2023

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I walked it in late June this year, so not August but still summer. The first day was very hot and that stage is an often shadeless walk with not much water available. It was quite hazy in the first few days and every afternoon/evening storms were forecast, but each of the first three days the rain didn’t come (although it got slightly cooler as the altitude increased). Finally the rain came on the afternoon of day 4 and it was much cooler after that.

 

trecile

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• Feb 2, 2023

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I started on the Salvador on the first day of June 2019. I had been on the Francés up to León, and a heat wave was just starting. Going up into the mountains on the Salvador saved me from the worst of the heat.

 

Dilbin

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• Feb 2, 2023

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tbcan said:

I am interested in hearing from anyone who has walked the San Salvador in August. I am concerned about the heat of summer and what it is like on this route.

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Hi. I walked in August last year and the weather was fine. It got cooler as I got closer to Oviedo but overall not too hot. Daniel