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Pyrenean Haute Route - July to
September 2004
Route now successfully completed. Initial report and some photos (more later!). A brilliant trip.
Follow our progress by clicking this link. See below for an explanation.
The start date is 25 July, when we fly to Biarritz to embark on the 45 stage route - we have adapted some of the stages, and including rest days plan to take about 56 days.
We will traverse about 500 miles from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean - where we plan to reach Banyuls-sur-Mer by about 19 September. View the outline of the route (but beware, if you do not have broadband it may take around a minute to download the image!).
You can find out more about the route from:
Rob Forsyth's website. He did the route over four consecutive years and there are plenty of photos to see here.
Alto Aragon. This company provide guided treks on the High Level Route.
More folks who set out alone...
For those who may be interested, here's our kit list.
The link
referred to above is to a two page spreadsheet. To view the sheet you will need
to scroll from left to right and up and down.
The first page 'Planned' sets out our rough plan. This is flexible apart from
the need to be in Gavarnie on August 16 to meet Julie Brown. Otherwise we do
not expect to stick religiously to either the route or the timings due to weather
and other constraints, though we do hope to catch a flight home from Perpignan
on 21 September!
The second page (click on 'Actual' at the bottom left of the screen) will (from
time to time, we hope) be updated by our webmasters and will give a brief flavour
of our progress across the Pyrenees.
If you want to know about the weather, at the start of the trip we will be in the vicinity of Biarritz weather, and towards the end we will approach Perpignan's more Mediterranean airs.