Drinking water & camping in the mountains

[Lydia Banales]

I have to protest, because I am one of those unlikely people who made
it. Besides being on the upper end of middle aged, over weight and out
of shape, I had injured my knee the week before we were to walk. We took
the "low" route because it was supposed to be easier and shorter. It was
a little shorter, but there was nothing easy about the second half of
it. The exertion was incredible. The best part is that we could walk it
in two nearly even segments with an overnight in the town of Valcarlos
in a very clean small hotel. I do want to walk the high route once to
see the vistas. We mainly saw the two sides of an ever-narrowing valley.
When we got to the Ibaneta Pass, I wanted to bend down and kiss the
ground like the Pope! Either way, you will arrive in Roncesvalle a
seasoned Pilgrim. Buen Camino. Lydia

David planning Le Chemin de St Jacques/El Camino de Santiago wrote:

>>I will be starting from Saint Jean Pied Du Port.  It looks like the first refugio is in Roncavalles, 27 km away.  That seems like too much to take on for my first day
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>I believe there is an intermediate village on the French side you could
>use to reduce the distance.   Also there is a choice of routes - high or low -
>and you could take the lower route to reduce the exertion.     Having said
>that, some pretty unlikely people seem to have made it, with some considerable
>pain in some cases.
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