Run for It ~ May 17, 2016

  • Tuesday, May 17, 2016 Jean Claude’s Birthday
  • Day 17 (Day 14 Camino)
  • Boissezon
  • Distance: 13 miles (1% tarmac) 204 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,015 feet and descent 2,590 feet
  • Time: 6 1/2 hours
  • Weather: 50-60 degrees, blue skies with clouds

I’ve been following this Frenchman for eight days. Any idea what I am always thinking? Grab the baguette and run for it!  He starts each day with a fresh baguette and ends each day with no baguette.

  1. Toward Boissezon
  2. Toward Boissezon
  3. Leaving Anglès

Miam Miam Dodo ~ May 16, 2016

  • Monday, May 16, 2016
  • Day 16 (Day 13 Camino)
  • Anglès
  • Distance: 12 miles (5% tarmac) 191 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,521 feet and descent 1,432 feet
  • Time: 5 1/4 hours
  • Weather: 50-60 degrees, breezy blue skies with clouds

The third of three guides in French. “Miam Miam Dodo” (Yum, Yum, Good Night) is a great resource for accommodations, maps with The Way marked, and services (ATM, train or bus stations, food stores, pharmacies, post offices, food markets, boulangeies, (bread bakeries), charcuterie (butchers).

Regretfully I don’t read French; but, I smile a lot.

  1. Anglès
  2. Anglès
  3. Anglès
  4. Anglès


English Guide Book ~ May 16, 2016

  • Monday, May 16, 2016
  • Day 16 (Day 13 Camino)
  • Anglès
  • Distance: 12 miles (5% tarmac) 191 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,521 feet and descent 1,432 feet
  • Time: 5 1/4 hours
  • Weather: 50-60 degrees, breezy blue skies with clouds

“Pilgrim Guides to the roads through France to Santiago de Compostela,” “I. Arles to Toulouse ” and “II. Toulouse to Puente la Reina.” Two of three guides carried. Though written in English, many terms, descriptions, and details are French.

  1. Anglès
  2. Anglès
  3. Anglès

Shelter ~ May 16, 2016 

  • Monday, May 16, 2016
  • Day 16 (Day 13 Camino)
  • Anglès
  • Distance: 12 miles (5% tarmac) 191 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,521 feet and descent 1,432 feet
  • Time: 5 1/4 hours
  • Weather: 50-60 degrees, breezy blue skies with clouds

Shelter on The Way a’la forest service.

  1. Toward Anglès – Forestry service shelter at Salavert
  2. Towards Anglès – Forestry service shelter at Salavert
  3. Towards Anglès – Forestry service shelter at Salavert

Beginning Day ~ May 16, 2016

  • Monday, May 16, 2016
  • Day 16 (Day 13 Camino)
  • Anglès
  • Distance: 12 miles (5% tarmac) 191 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,521 feet and descent 1,432 feet
  • Time: 5 1/4 hours
  • Weather: 50-60 degrees, breezy blue skies with clouds

Beginning the day.

  1. Anglès – Gîte d’étape communal
  2. Towards Anglès – classic painted “balisage” (markers) being replaced by metal reflective signs
  3. Towards Anglès – newer metal reflective signs

Lake ~ May 15, 2016

  • Sunday, May 15, 2016
  • Day 15 (Day 12 Camino)
  • La Salvetat-sur-Agout
  • Distance: 13 1/2 miles (5% tarmac) 179 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,491 feet and descent 1,950 feet
  • Time: 7 hours
  • Weather: 45- 60 degrees, 16 mph wind, cloudy

Lake.  My non-waterproof trail running shoes have now taken in water.

  1. Towards La Salvetat-sur-Agout – Lac de Laouzas
  2. Towards La Salvetat-sur-Agout – Lac de Laouzas
  3. Towards La Salvetat-sur-Agout

Tall ~ May 15, 2016

  • Sunday, May 15, 2016
  • Day 15 (Day 12 Camino)
  • La Salvetat-sur-Agout
  • Distance: 13 1/2 miles (5% tarmac) 179 1/2 total miles
  • Ascent 1,491 feet and descent 1,950 feet
  • Time: 7 hours
  • Weather: 45- 60 degrees, 16 mph wind, cloudy

Tall. Powerful.

  1. Towards La Salvetat-sur-Agout
  2. Towards La Salvetat-sur-Agout
  3. La Salvetat-sur-Agout – Romanesque chapel of Saint-Étienne-de-Cavalluzzo, C11th