This year we will follow the GR10. It is a traverse of the Pyrenees, from Hendaye on the Atlantic to Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Mediterranean. Daily blogs will file here.
The official GR10 website has lots of useful information, including all the gpx track data. It can be found here:
We also bought the e-book version of Trekking the GR10 (Cicerone). It’s generally good, though some of the links for accommodation take you to Chinese websites. Some of the route descriptions are a bit garbled (especially if there is a variant on the day), and in one case the route described is now closed, and looked dangerous.
GR10 Day00
We got the taxi to Gatwick to find that our plane had been delayed. This was our first experience flying ...
GR10 Day01
An early breakfast at 7:30 which was nothing special. We packed and left about 8:40. The route took us beside ...
GR10 Day02
The breakfast was up to the standard of last night’s meal. We left shortly after 9am and started the long ...
GR10 Day03
We were up early and had a very nice breakfast. We left at 8:30 and immediately started climbing on a ...
GR10 Day04
After three strenuous days, we decided that an easier day was in order, rather than the GR10’s 16km and 1300m ...
GR10 Day05
We left the hotel and walked back through the village. The route took us uphill, first on a tarred road, ...
GR10 Day06
We woke up to grey skies and low cloud and then the rain started. We had a good breakfast, the ...
GR10 Day07
Breakfast was basic; some cereal, bread, butter, and marmalade, and orange juice and coffee. We were out the door by ...
GR10 Day08
We had our yoghurt and croissants for breakfast and set off. Looking ahead, tomorrow is going to be a long ...
GR10 Day09
Last night the dinner was good, and we were the only two in our dormitory, so two wins. Breakfast was ...
GR10 Day10
Last night's dinner was good, but the main course wasn't very warm. We met a couple who were walking east ...
GR10 Day11
I nipped out of the refuge when we got up to take a photo of the sunrise with the clouds ...
GR10 Day12
Leaving Lescun we dropped down 100m into the valley and then quickly started a climb back up the other side ...
GR10 Day13
We had an excellent dinner, then went to our bedroom and set the alarm for 5:45. This was going to ...
GR10 Day14
The owner of the hotel said that the road was too dangerous to walk and there were lots of cars ...
GR10 Day15
Last night when we arrived in Gourette it was foggy and it was still foggy this morning. We started walking ...
GR10 Day16
Our accommodation last night was in a place called a "holiday camp". There were a few big buildings and a ...
GR10 Day17
There was not much noise overnight so we had a good sleep. Breakfast was basic: cereal with powdered milk, toast ...
GR10 Day18
We had a great dinner last night (preceded by a lovely cocktail each) and the best breakfast so far on ...
GR10 Day19
We had breakfast at 8am, packed leisurely, and wandered out of the hotel as today was going to be a ...
GR10 Day20
The GR10 led us out of Bareges and onto a farm track on the west side of the river. It ...
GR10 Day21
We left the refuge and started along the east side of the lake to rejoin the GR10. Looking at the ...
GR10 Day22
The hotel room was lovely and breakfast was great, but our room had poor mobile phone signal and the hotel ...
GR10 Day23
Germ was a small village and we had a lovely room (up two flights of stairs again!) in the auberge ...
GR10 Day24
Today was going to be another long day and we had an early breakfast (see yesterday for description) to climb ...
GR10 Day25
Today's stage was introduced to shorten tomorrow's stage as it was very long. Effectively we would be going up to ...
GR10 Day26
We set the alarm for 6am as today was going to be another long day. The day was just brightening ...
GR10 Day27
We had a good dinner in the gite. Courgette tart, empanada, tortilla, salad, gazpacho, chicken nuggets and wings, hummus, and ...
GR10 Day28
Over the next couple of days we again have to walk on the GR10 variant as there is no staffed ...
GR10 Day29
We had a relatively late start as today was going be “valley walking”. We left the village and walked up ...
GR10 Day30
Today was another day that we walked the GR10 Variant, as the GR10 headed into the mountains for two days ...
GR10 Day31
As we left the gite there were two loud rolls of thunder. Thunder had been forecast for the afternoon, but ...
GR10 Day32
It was raining as we had breakfast in the dark. We put the covers on our bags and our rain ...
GR10 Day33
Today was a relatively short day. This means you tend to get up late, start walking late, and the temperature ...
GR10 Day34
The earliest we could have breakfast was 7:30 as the owner had to get bread from the shop. This was ...
GR10 Day35
We helped ourselves to our allotted items from the cupboard for breakfast and set off just before 9am. There was ...
GR10 Day36
Luckily, we were up early and filled our water bottles before the water ran out. Today’s walk took us uphill ...
GR10 Day37
We left at 9am after another poor breakfast. The old path immediately started climbing and twenty minutes later we were ...
GR10 Day38
Today was to be a longer walk, but with a lot less climbing. The path initially led down from the ...
GR10 Day39
(We must be getting near the end as last night's wine was from the Banyuls area) The forecast for the ...
GR10 Day40
Back to the usual routine of out the door and start climbing... The initial path was on the road, but ...
GR10 Day41
Today could be summarised as dry, drizzle, dry, drizzle, rain, dry, rain, dry, with lots of low cloud. We crossed ...
GR10 Day42
A good dinner last night night, featuring a venison stew. The deer had been shot by the gite owner with ...
GR10 Day43
Today was a long walk as we circumnavigated the Pic Canigou. There are lots of valleys running down the sides ...
GR10 Day44
The path took us along the mountain, passing the last piece of wreckage from a crashed plane. We then dropped ...
GR10 Day45
The forecast for the coming days was to be extremely hot, so we made sure we left as early as ...
GR10 Day46
It was another early start to get the climbing done before the heat. The walk was through woodland, initially pine, ...
GR10 Day47
We each had breakfast bags from the restaurant and were all up by 6am. We followed the shortcut, and were ...
GR10 Day48
It was a traditional start of going out the door and starting to climb. We went up through the woods ...