Traversing through the Pyrenees requires a town to stop in every night to obtain rest and provisions. Every day starts with a fairly steep climb, then a transversal along the ridge until a drop down to the next town. The problem with that is invariably the beginning and end of the day has limited ability to see very far because the assent and descent are normally through Woodland. Today was no exception. In fact the first 14 km was on the same gravel track through trees making the day somewhat monotonous. Here is a typical view that we had for the majority of the day. Andreas picked a good day to take a day off.

After several hours of walking uphill in the trees, we reached Collado da Saitsederra where the gravel path veered off to our right whilst we continued ahead onto some green pasture. Ahead were the white capped mountains we had first seen yesterday all looking much nearer than we had expected.

All too quickly, we were back into the trees and starting our descent towards Isaba. The guidebook was not wrong in its description of it being steep. His a typical shot of Jason using his poles to great effect as we descended towards the town.

With a bone jarring final descent, we reached the outskirts of Isaba where we were met by the now very familiar GR11 noticeboard.