Distance: 15km
Ascent: 1200m
Descent: 650m.
The day started with a reasonably challenging navigation straight up through Pyrenean ‘pea soup’. Eventually hiked out of that at about 1000m. The landscape gets progressively wilder, although significantly drier. That, I am told, is unprecedented and there are no climate change deniers amongst the Basque.
At 1400m was a Neolithic stone circle, a 5000 year old burial site. Why? What? How? etc etc. I sat there for a while imagining.
The scent of bushfire put an end to that.
The descent into Chalet Pedro was mercifully cool under the shade of a beautiful forest.
