Ye i got experience with that tbh. Those chains can be very cold. He should have worn a glove. Gonna have freezing hands - can say that with my own experience in holding cold chains for a while.
Ligt er aan wat je meeneemt :p Ik had de keuze om zeg maar van die tochten te doen waar je op de berg(en) zelf blijft pitten, maar dat heb ik niet meer gedaan. Ik heb gewoon met een backpack met eten/drinken op stap gegaan en extreme routes gelopen.
Ja klopt bagage vervoeren moet je niet doen. Ik zat op een camping in de bergen, dus kon vanuit daar organiseren welke routes we wilde gaan lopen. Als ik wat kortere routes liep, dan had ik een backpack met 5 liter water bij me met wat eten en als ik wat langere routes liep dan hadden we een grote backpack bij van een kilotje of 15/20 met wat stuff er in. Die wisselden we telkens af.
No date yet. I'm only in the stage where I say I wanna do it, just like the tour of the mont blanc, another great tour.
The GR20 takes 20 days and I wanna do it from beginning to the end so when I do it I want to be fully prepared. Also nights will be short (small places to sleep, backpackers coming in & out, snorring, etc...), full days of walking, some tough stages with a few 1000m differences in altitude. Definately no holiday! Your broken after 20 days! In tourist season it's hard to get a sleeping spot aswell so better to do it outside the busy periods. Probably April/May is a good moment. Can be quite hot in summer aswell.
I'm gonna do it in 15 days though. Shouldn't be too hard I hope.
The only concern I have is sleeping spots, if you can't get any you'll need to pack a tent which means lots and lots of extra kilos :(
That's quite soon. I would wait till the weather is a bit warmer. I just checked, during the day it's 10° in Corsica, in the mountains it's even colder and at night it's gonna be cold as hell! Will be interesting how you get through those cold nights!! I hope for your sake you can be able to sleep well but I doubt it :p
I don't think it's gonna be very crowded in 15 days so I wouldn't worry about sleeping spots. It's the middle of the winter, your probably gonna be alone!
Een Quechua tent aanschaffen? Zijn niet duur, wegen drie keer niks en makkelijk om mee te nemen! Ik heb namelijk wel een 5 daagse tocht gedaan in de Ardennen waar ik van punt A naar B naar C etc ging. Tas was ongeveer 25 kilo MET de tent er bij! Ik heb 5 dagen toen in de Ardennen gezeten. Je tas wordt alleen maar lichter naar het eind van de week toe.
Ik had ook te veel bij. Die tent was +/- 5 kilo, maar ik had tering veel eten bij die ik deelde met een maat. Mijn tas woog ook niks meer toen ik weg ging :p
I'm doing the TMB this summer too, as a warmup for the GR20! Starting around the 2nd week of July, probably taking around 9 days (taking my dad along, quality time ;)
Will be indeed a good training! It's around 11 000 meters climbing and 11 000 meters descending spread over 10 days (thx wiki!). If you can do that one, you shouldn't have a problem with the G20 in corsica. Anyway, just having a decent condition should be enough I guess!
I'm concentrating on running atm to stay sharp! Will probably do the 10km of knokke, 15km of dwars door brugge, 10km of ghent & 10km of kortrijk!
The TMB is considered "easier" than Corsica though, as the GR 20 is the toughest of Europe. The TMB also has a massive amount of "gîtes" along the way so you can cut your deadlines any time you want.
Still got plans to do it in the summer?
I'm also running to keep up my conditions. Doing 10k three times a week, trying 15 once in a while. Hopefully I'll be ready for a marathon somewhere in September or October (Rotterdam seems to be good), but in the meanwhile I'm running the 10k of Gent, and first of all the 16k (or 10 miles) of Antwerp.
try to do it outside the main season (eg june or september) because it's fucking full like a highway.
If you plan to sleep outside (not in the guarded huts etc) you will probably need to look where to before going because i believe it is forbidden to do it anywhere you want, and there are only a few places close to the huts where it is possible.
Oh and it should be really easy, like a grandma path.
Hoeveel kilo had je mee?
The GR20 takes 20 days and I wanna do it from beginning to the end so when I do it I want to be fully prepared. Also nights will be short (small places to sleep, backpackers coming in & out, snorring, etc...), full days of walking, some tough stages with a few 1000m differences in altitude. Definately no holiday! Your broken after 20 days! In tourist season it's hard to get a sleeping spot aswell so better to do it outside the busy periods. Probably April/May is a good moment. Can be quite hot in summer aswell.
The only concern I have is sleeping spots, if you can't get any you'll need to pack a tent which means lots and lots of extra kilos :(
I don't think it's gonna be very crowded in 15 days so I wouldn't worry about sleeping spots. It's the middle of the winter, your probably gonna be alone!
Should be do-able in 15 days but there won't be much time to relax then!
Will be indeed a good training! It's around 11 000 meters climbing and 11 000 meters descending spread over 10 days (thx wiki!). If you can do that one, you shouldn't have a problem with the G20 in corsica. Anyway, just having a decent condition should be enough I guess!
I'm concentrating on running atm to stay sharp! Will probably do the 10km of knokke, 15km of dwars door brugge, 10km of ghent & 10km of kortrijk!
The TMB is considered "easier" than Corsica though, as the GR 20 is the toughest of Europe. The TMB also has a massive amount of "gîtes" along the way so you can cut your deadlines any time you want.
Still got plans to do it in the summer?
I'm also running to keep up my conditions. Doing 10k three times a week, trying 15 once in a while. Hopefully I'll be ready for a marathon somewhere in September or October (Rotterdam seems to be good), but in the meanwhile I'm running the 10k of Gent, and first of all the 16k (or 10 miles) of Antwerp.
See you there? ;)
If you plan to sleep outside (not in the guarded huts etc) you will probably need to look where to before going because i believe it is forbidden to do it anywhere you want, and there are only a few places close to the huts where it is possible.
Oh and it should be really easy, like a grandma path.