After the previous day’s efforts, this would be an easy one: just 5 km to walk to Griegos along a gentle ascent of 100 metres. And a good job too after the rough night I’d had. Breakfast was at 9, a simple affair, but I didn’t need too much fuel for the day, especially as… Continue reading Day 7 – Guadalviar to Griegos
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Day 6 – Terriente to Guadalaviar
This was the big one. I had two options, either head for El Vallecillo and pick up the trail there (around 45 km) or follow the route that Komoot had worked out for me via Frías di Albarracín to Guadalaviar (around 35 km). I of course opted for the latter, even if I changed part… Continue reading Day 6 – Terriente to Guadalaviar
The Ostweg – Days Four to Six
What should have been an easy morning hike of just over 13 km into Freudenstadt, estimated at 13 km, turned into a 21-km slog for a number of reasons, notably a huge amount of logging work at the start of the day that obliged me to make a long detour. I set off from the… Continue reading The Ostweg – Days Four to Six
The Ostweg – Days One to Three
On May 19th, 2022, after completing my annual marathon of work for the Cannes Film Festival that had opened a few days earlier, I took a train from Paris to Pforzheim via Karlsruhe to hike the Ostweg, the third north-south Black Forest trail, after the Westweg in September 2019 and the Mittelweg in September 2020.… Continue reading The Ostweg – Days One to Three
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