We had every kind of weather you can imagine coming over the pass today. It´s 27 kilometers with an elevation gain of 1400 meters. We started off in cloudy weather after an early morning (before we got up) thunderstorm. By the time we were a quarter of the way ( and we all walked separately) we´d been drenched by hard rain. Then the rain stopped and the wind started. There were a couple times I was blown all the way across the road and thought I was going to have to hit the dirt to keep from being tossed down the valley! At the top, crossing into Spain, it was completely calm...for 300 yards. Then the wind and sleet started and didn´t abate until we were nearly down. There was a big thunderstorm in the valley to the right rumbling thunder and flashing lightning.
We did the whole thing in about 7 hours, which was without stopping because it was just too dangerous. I don´t think there were any casualties and we´re all headed out to dinner. Cindy is much better. Tomorrow we´ll do 20k through relatively flat, I think. The views, when we had them, were spectacular. Cindy pulled her camera out but I was too driven to just get the hell down the hill. It´s green green green, and wet wet wet, but the weather forecast for the next week is more beautiful blue skies. We´ll be thinking of buying shorts by Pamplona.
Spanish keyboards are like American keyboards and I can type a whole lot faster!
Buen camino!
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