Day 11-15: 🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees | by Lac Gentau to Chalet -refuge la Grange de Holle

By now the GR10 rhythm is set: big climbs, rewarding views, and the daily push forward 🏞️. These days show both the challenges and the beauty of the Pyrenees.

Day 11🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees.

ℹ️Stats:

Weather: hot & sunny ☀️

From: by Lac Gentau

Start time: 8am

To: Lac d’Anglas

End time: 8.10pm

Accommodation: wild camped

Terrain: gravel, mountain passes, slate, roads, forest, grass

Cicerone guidebook stages: final bit of stage 13 and most of stage 14

🥾Km: 27.55

🥾Miles: 17

🦶Steps:30,671

Ascent:1658m

Descent: 1584m

Total Distance 266/955km 27.8% Done ✅

💰Costs: €10 2x snickers, 2x mars, 2x bounty, crisps

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 8/10

Fatigue: 4/10 I was moving a lot slower towards the end of the day

Ease of terrain: 9/10

⭐️Highlights: nice descent down to Gabas, in the shade 🙏 The climb up to HOURQUETTE

•D’ARRE Alt. 2465m was spectacular!

🏔️Challenges: the final 300m was a killer. The back of my ankles were killing, from being at a 45 degree angle for so long.

Camping being surrounded by cow poo and cows! It can be quite scary when you’re in your tent trying to sleep and you can hear all the bells around you.

💭Thoughts: what another epic day! They keep on coming!

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Day 12🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees.

ℹ️Stats:

Weather:hot & sunny ☀️

From: Lac d’Anglas

Start time: 9.45am

To: Arrens-Marsous

End time: 6pm

Accommodation: camped

Terrain: grassy, mountain tracks, forest, road

Cicerone guidebook stages: final bit of stage 14, stage 15

🥾Km: 17

🥾Miles: 10.6

🦶Steps: 20,629

Ascent: 843m

Descent: 2026m

Total Distance 283/955km 30 % Done ✅

💰Costs: €20 cheese, ham, peanuts, jelly sweets x2x water, baby tomatoes, crisps.

€3 apple juice

€17 camping

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 7/10

Fatigue: 4/10

Ease of terrain: 6/10

⭐️Highlights: started the day with a lie in then some yoga/stretching! Quite a gentle day today only two climbs, but in the grand scheme of things they were quite small the highest being 1799 m and then the second highest being 1525m

🏔️Challenges: I’m bit annoyed about paying €17 for the camping as it is about a 10 minute walk out of town what’s even more annoying as they didn’t tell me that they turned the Internet off at 9 o’clock and doesn’t come on till 7 am tomorrow morning, which is a little bit frustrating when you want to do some planning and Research, but it is what it is.

💭Thoughts: thinking about it now I wish I just got some food on the way through and carried on walking and found somewhere to wild camp. The main reason for paying the camping is to get the Wi-Fi!

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Day 13 🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees.

ℹ️Stats:

Weather: hot & sunny 26 degrees

From: Arrens-Marsous

Start time: 8.25am

To: Cauterets

End time: 9.30pm

Accommodation: camped

Terrain: everything - roads, grassy, cows pats, technical downhill, switchbacks, big rocks, small rocks, gravel, sand, water.

Cicerone guidebook stages: 16 & 17

🥾Km:28.37

🥾Miles: 18

🦶Steps:34,504

Ascent:1673m

Descent: 1629m

Total Distance 312/955km 33% Done ✅

💰Costs: €12 cheese, yogurt drink (high protein), orange cordial mixes (for water)

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 8/10

Fatigue: 3/10

Ease of terrain: 8/10

⭐️Highlights: reaching the high pass, descending to the refuge, chilling there before descending down. Good walking.

🏔️Challenges: finding some where to camp was a nightmare. Got turned away from 1 campsite and found another. No one on reception. So asked 3 French guys if I could set up by tent next to them which they were cool about!

💭Thoughts: should I pop the blister on my right big toe? Or just let it do its thing?!

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Day 14🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ magnificent day!

ℹ️Stats:

Weather: sunny 26 degrees

From: Cauterets

Start time: 8.05 am - from supermarket

To: Refuge des Ouletes de Gaube

End time: 6.15pm

Accommodation: camped 🏕️

Terrain: well maintained mountain path. Large boulders and stones.

Cicerone guidebook stages: 18

🥾Km:17.10

🥾Miles: 10.6

🦶Steps: 15,570

Ascent:1391m

Descent: 167m

Total Distance 327/955km 34% Done ✅

💰Costs: €42 food for approx 3 days

€5 ice cream 2 scoops caramel

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 10/10

Fatigue: 3/10

Ease of terrain: 4/10

⭐️Highlights: beautiful walk at the side of a river lots of switchbacks and stunning waterfalls on the way. Stopped off at Lac de Gaube for a swim, lunch and sunbath. Continued on up the valley and it just got better and better; cascades, waterfall after waterfall. Spectacular!

🏔️Challenges: trying to get the photos and videos to show the scale and the beauty of the day.

💭Thoughts: really excited for tomorrow heading to Hourquette d’Ossoue 2734m - the highest point of the GR10 🥳

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Day 15 🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees.

ℹ️Stats:

Weather: sunny, cloudy with a little rain

From: Refuge des Ouletes de Gaube

Start time: 8.40am

To: Chalet -refuge la Grange de Holle

End time: 5pm

Accommodation: camped

Terrain: mountain paths, grassy meadows,

Cicerone guidebook stages: 19

🥾Km: 19.89

🥾Miles: 12.4

🦶Steps: 22,272

Ascent: 885m

Descent: 1522m

Total Distance 348/955km 36% Done ✅

💰Costs: €14 camping 🏕️

€23 dinner at the refuge - soup, rice and a lentil dish, one piece of cheese and a piece of gluten-free cake.

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 9/10

Fatigue: 3/10

Ease of terrain: 3/10

⭐️Highlights: what a walk up! Zig zags all the way!

🏔️Challenges: holy hell the weather in the evening was horrendous ⚡️thunder &⚡️ lightning, high winds, non-stop rain 🌧️ the tent collapsed in on itself. I had to get out to put the pegs back in trying to keep everything dry. I’m just waiting for it to pass - can’t remember a time it’s been this bad. Thank goodness, I’m not in the mountains. ⛰️ this is scary.

💭Thoughts: thank goodness I stopped walking when I did.

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👉 The trail goes on! Head over to Part 4: GR10 Days 16–20 for more daily stats, rugged paths, and mountain magic 🌄📊✨

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