Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Hiking the Pyrenees..

Forget to mention in my previous post, all day long I was hearing from Kuba that he can smell vodka from me... finally after 5pm I decided to brush my teeth on the bus station in Sabiniango.

On Monday we started to hike at 8am. Everything went ok only for the first 30 min, because my knee started to hurt me... but of course it didn't stop us.










After an hour we got to small church Santa Ana.

Abandoned houses...






Torla... after an hour of hiking.











After 5 houres I was almost not able to walk, so we had to take a lot of breaks...












Finally after 6 houres we got to the top!!

Kuba's running to the top of the mountain above.














We took a longer break at the top.

After the break Kuba had an great idea, to go down different path...

The only problem was... that path was dangerous...

Dangerous path + my hurting knee = DEATH

We had to change it...

After quite some time blisters appeared on our feet. Cold water from the river was like ambrosia.




So anyway, after 5 houres of walking we had to change the plans... no more hiking for me... what meant going back to Torla, taking room in a hotel for the next two nights. Kuba is going to climb the Monte Perdido and I'll wait for him.

Stats for the first day were not so bad...
We were walking for 11houres, approximetely 6 houres hiking, and 5 going down. The highest point we got was 2200m (7217 ft). Distance we covered was 24 km (15 miles).

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