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Captain Chris on the GR11
We met Captain Chris at Espot (Spanish Pyrenees) last Friday, in the middle of his GR11 "sprint". He is covering phenomenal distances every day. We were supposed to meet him on the trail, but we were sitting having a leisurely breakfast when he popped up in the village (of course he had started walking at 6am!). How embarassing. We gave him a shower, relieved his heavy rucksack of a few items, and then set off on the next 10K with him. Chris is in fine form. He had a a problem with snow at one point (too much), and had to lose a day through a detour, but he is still at least a day ahead of schedule. Made Dave and my foray into the mountains seem pretty tame. Probably the first and last time I will ever be at Chris's side on a 10K! ps. Beware men bearing gifts. Chris gave me a sunhat he had found on the trail, it fitted perfectly and I wore it immediately (I could no longer bear Dave's comments about my pirate buff look). At the end of the walk I took it off and to my horror discovered some form of dead animal inside. yuk yuk yukPosted by Muffy Calder on Thu 22 Jul 2010 | 2 comments
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Chris said...
Good to see you & Dave at Espot, and sorry about getting you out of bed so early (8.30am). Thanks for the coffee, shower, and taking some of my kit. I enjoyed the gentle amble down to Guingueta before getting back to the final 400km of the GR11.
I did find it brave of you to don that hat quite so hastily, after I found it in the woods covered with slugs.
Thursday 29th July 2010 1.30pm
Don said...
Muffy,
Your shenanigins with the hat reminds me of the joke about a chinese man, Crianlarich and the comment 'where the fox hat'
Thursday 29th July 2010 1.40pm