| Distance | 17 km |
| Time | 5hrs 10 mins |
| Difficulty | 765m of climbing – pretty easy |
| Good for |
Day 4 was the last day of this year’s ‘taster’ walk. Again without Luca, we got a taxi back to the Urkiaga Pass where we had been picked up the previous day. Time for another team photo before we started.
On occasion it had been difficult to follow the path, partly because a lack of signage, partly because multiple paths crossed with seemingly the same red and white navigation stripes. Where we struggled, All Trails got us out of a hole as this had GPS tracking. What did we ever do without GPS?
Today we had a bit more company before we headed into the woods…
Some of the paths were quite wet and on the downhill parts this became a little treacherous. Walking poles were the order of the day.
The path snaked alongside the Odiako Erreka river for a while, crossing a bridge…
And at one point crossing through the river…
Here’s Jason and I stopping for a bit of lunch…
Back into the open countryside and the clouds begin to lift…
But no sooner as the clouds lifted, back they came. This time we got a bit of a soaking for the first time on the trip, not far from our finish point in Burguete.
Rather damp, we made it to Burguete. After a long beer we were picked up by another taxi for a journey to Pamplona.
Burguete is where I pick up the Ernest Hemingway vibe again as the main characters in The Sun Also Rises spend several days in Burguete, walking to the river in Roncesvalles for a fishing trip, returning to Pamplona for what seems to be a week long knees-up before the bull run. Eerily similar to what we were about to do, if you ignore the fishing bit 🙂
Life Two 