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Pyrenees High Route (Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne)

July – August 2015
GR10 artwork in Banyuls Sur Mer at the end of the HRP

After having spent a summer being a tourist around Europe, I returned to the Continent this time to see more of its natural, rather the cultural, wonders. I started by hiking from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea along the France-Spain border, conquering the Pyrenees High Route (Haute Randonnée Pyrénéenne).

Despite some very hot days in the beginning, quite a bit of thick fog — which was often accompanied by rain or lightning storms — and a minor slip and fall that dislocated my finger requiring a trip to a Spanish emergency room, I made it across the Iberian Peninsula to the beach on the other side. Probably my most demanding hike since the CDT.

Pictures

Browse photos from my time walking the frontier, since I have not posted a full trip report yet.