Distance: 17km
Ascent: 900m
Descent: 400m.
Ascent: 900m
Descent: 400m.
On the road again after mending body and soul for a couple of days. The heat continues unabated and hiking out of Biddaray would have involved 3 x 1000m plus ascents with technical descents through an area with no water sources. Deathwish material! So I took an 18m train trip to St Jean and started from there. This is the town where the GR 10 (which traverses the Pyrenees West to East) intersects the Way of St James (which crosses the Pyrenees at Roncevalles).
Another day above 40C today through stunning countryside ending with a home cooked meal at this ramshackle Gîtes d’étape, and some great laughs with fellow hikers across at least 3 language barriers.
