Ep5 The GR20: On the Ridge
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Ep5 The GR20: On the Ridge
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The trail begins in the village and immediately forgets about it.
This episode is the GR20 itself -- from the first brutal stage out of Calenzana to the descent into Conca two weeks later. The northern section in full: the granite world above two thousand meters, the Cirque de la Solitude diversion via the Bocca Minuta, the mouflon on the high cols, and what Vizzavona feels like after nine days on the high route. Then the south: the forests of laricio pine, the Aiguilles de Bavella in afternoon light, and what happens to the mind somewhere around day four or five when the trail stops being an ordeal and becomes something quieter.
You leave knowing: the defining stages of the northern and southern sections, what the Cirque de la Solitude diversion involves, where to encounter mouflon on the route, how to read the mountain weather, and what the GR20 is actually testing -- which is not what most people think.
Part two of two. Listen to episode four before this one.
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