Charlie: Well we’ve seen everything. The first day had beautiful sunny weather and blue skies. The walk from Roncesvalles was amazing. White snow capped peaks all around, verdant mountain meadows, babbling brooks, sheep, horses, cows. As pretty as anything we have hiked through.
We were going generally downhill but with lots of ups and downs. We went 8 miles and felt okay. Stayed at Viskarret.
On getting up we saw it was drizzling. It drizzled on and off the whole second day. Some periods of sun but mostly cloudy. Still beautiful country though, farm country, mostly fields for grazing. We passed a 100 yard square evergreen tree stand. They must have had a big wind recently because there were a lot of down branches on all the trees. We stopped a little past Larrasoana.
We got up on day three and it was snowing! We had snow for a while and then off and on cloudy and rainy. On the last pass into Pamplona we had snow again. Still beautiful country, very green and pastoral.
It was cold going into Pamplona, in the high 30s. And it was rainy and cold when we went out to eat.
Saturday morning, today as I write, we woke up to snow. Looking out the hotel window it was pretty thick and piling up. Snow stopped about 10 and is a little warmer now.
