cassiocassio: packing. agonising over weight.
cassiocassio: ready. 13.5kg for 8 days.
cassiocassio: gite d'etape at bidous. an old school building.
cassiocassio: large red wet flowers of some kind
cassiocassio: the last houses at 960 metres. everything is now up from here.
cassiocassio: watched by the inhabitants
cassiocassio: up through the tangled forest
cassiocassio: wet dead beach leaves rotting on the branches
cassiocassio: approching the cabane de materat, near the col, the port de tavescan. we will be disappointed to discover that the roof leaks.
cassiocassio: the wick of the oil lamp is too short to give any more than a tiny flame
cassiocassio: optimisitc descent
cassiocassio: high quality dead tree
cassiocassio: freakflower
cassiocassio: struck by lightening
cassiocassio: rain in bright sunshine, from our camp at estany de guerosso, under the tuc de certescan
cassiocassio: she's happy because she eats Dr. Karg Bread of Distinction
cassiocassio: crossing a high snowfield at the coll de certescan we look up to see a confident catalonian couple who are older, fitter and faster than us
cassiocassio: icebergs (small) at estany certascan.
cassiocassio: footprints
cassiocassio: cairn (spanish), minimal
cassiocassio: eating. all day, eating.
cassiocassio: small, fluffy and nervous
cassiocassio: a bend in the path
cassiocassio: pink and fury
cassiocassio: the old road through the pla boavi
cassiocassio: now this seems charming, but further up, where the bridge is washed away, crossing the riu de sellente will not seem so much fun
cassiocassio: fresh gowth