bigkev wrote:Hi Ben,
I did the GR a few years ago, I did a journal here https://hiking.topicwise.com/doc/?o=1mr ... 12702&v=G0 with a lot of photos in it.
We ate at the refuges or hotels each night, in my opinion the main meals are a lot better than the breakfasts. A lot of the refuges made the breakfasts up after everybody had gone to bed and then left them in the refuge to be collected in the morning - the problem with that is it required honesty from the people sleeping in the refuge, not something that was always evident, after losing some of my breakfast a couple of times I decided making my own brekky would be preferable.
You can buy crusty bread (along with cheese and dried meats) in a lot of the refuges, the locals almost live on this stuff and I quickly came to appreciate this style of walking.
You can easily double up some sections but I think if you've travelled to the other side of the world to do the walk you may as well kick back a bit and enjoy it, the afternoons on the decks of the refuges talking to new friends from around the world was one of the highlights for me.
Cheers Kevin
MrFaulty wrote:Thanks again, I just finished reading your blog. In your blog you refer to maps - did you have proper 1:25000 maps and if so where did you purchase them from?
Cheers
Benbigkev wrote:Hi Ben,
I did the GR a few years ago, I did a journal here https://hiking.topicwise.com/doc/?o=1mr ... 12702&v=G0 with a lot of photos in it.
We ate at the refuges or hotels each night, in my opinion the main meals are a lot better than the breakfasts. A lot of the refuges made the breakfasts up after everybody had gone to bed and then left them in the refuge to be collected in the morning - the problem with that is it required honesty from the people sleeping in the refuge, not something that was always evident, after losing some of my breakfast a couple of times I decided making my own brekky would be preferable.
You can buy crusty bread (along with cheese and dried meats) in a lot of the refuges, the locals almost live on this stuff and I quickly came to appreciate this style of walking.
You can easily double up some sections but I think if you've travelled to the other side of the world to do the walk you may as well kick back a bit and enjoy it, the afternoons on the decks of the refuges talking to new friends from around the world was one of the highlights for me.
Cheers Kevin
MrFaulty wrote:Thanks, yes, I have that book - and Paddy Dillons. Also, with regard to your swimming spots off the beaten track, are these easy to locate?
Cheers
Ben
bigkev wrote:MrFaulty wrote:Thanks, yes, I have that book - and Paddy Dillons. Also, with regard to your swimming spots off the beaten track, are these easy to locate?
Sorry, is this heading north or south?
Cheers
Ben
Cheers
Ben
There are a lot of opportunities for swimming and most of them are pretty obvious, although they are never warm!
One of the better ones in the Ravine De Volpajola just out of Bavella requires a bit of detective work to find it. As you leave Bavella heading towards Refuge de Palari you follow an old dirt road, when the road bottoms out and crosses a concrete ford head up stream for a few minutes and you'll find one of the best swimming spots on the GR.
Cheers
Kevin
MrFaulty wrote:For people who have done this walk, do you think I should be taking my PLB along? I assume it will work O/S?
MrFaulty wrote:Done and dusted. Re rescues O/S, from my investigations, they do NOT charge for rescue on the proviso that they determine that you have not been careless or reckless.
The walk was great but very difficult, but I was carrying a smidge under 26kg!
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