Day 21-25: 🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees. | Artigue to before Jasse du Fouillet

With more than half the trail behind me, the Pyrenees still had plenty to throw my way. 🥾 Here’s what these days looked like out on the GR10.

Day 21 🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees.

ℹ️Stats:

Weather: dry & sunny

From: Artigue

Start time: 8.15am

To: Cabane d’Uls

End time: 7.45pm

Accommodation: Bothy! Bed - I still used my blow up mattress and sleeping bag

Terrain: grassy meadows, mountain tracks, forests, roads, big rocks.

Cicerone guidebook stages: 28 and most of 29

🥾Km: 22.38 + 10.60 ‎ = 32.98

🥾Miles: 14 + 6.6 ‎ = 20.6

🦶Steps: 27,734 + 14,125 ‎ = 41,859

Ascent: 1436 m + 1030 m ‎ = 2,466 m

Descent: 1456 m + 351 m ‎ = 1,807 m

*I put my watch in multi sport mode - so needed to stop the first 1 and start again.

Total Distance 515/955km 54% Done ✅

💰Costs: €0 yes!!!! Another day of not spending any money!!! Need a few more of these!

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 9/10

Fatigue: 3/10

Ease of terrain: 5/10

⭐️Highlights: staying at the bothy! Although I did ruin a French couples romantic getaway! They also had a super cute puppy (Venus) who was adorable

🏔️Challenges: food resupply over the next couple of days is stressing me out. I don’t know how to make it work?!

💭Thoughts: 💭💭💭💭

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Day 22 🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees.

ℹ️Stats:

Weather: sunny. ☀️

From: Cabane d’Uls

Start time: 8.02am

To: Bonac

End time: 7.30pm

Accommodation: camping - area de biovac

Terrain: grassy, forests, leafy, muddy, rocky

Cicerone guidebook stages: end of stage 29, 30 & 31A (low level option - for resupply)

🥾Km: 27.74

🥾Miles: 17

🦶Steps: 31,215

Ascent: 1447 m

Descent: 2604 m

Total Distance 542/955km 56% Done ✅

💰Costs: €0 not for want of trying I would like to spend some money on food!

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 8/10

Fatigue: 1/10 - not feeling tired at all

Ease of terrain: 5/10 - some gnarly sections on the way down as in 1 foot 🦶 wide, walking on a slant, very dodgy.

⭐️Highlights: the morning climb to the first refuge was awesome, as was walking by the old mines.

🏔️Challenges: resupply and food. I’ve messed this up! I walked to Bonac as I thought it had a restaurant/bar - it doesn’t. So now I need to do tomorrow - approx 30k to get resupply with no food. Not the best planning I’ve done.

💭Thoughts: it is what it is - these things don’t really stress me out a huge amount - that’s why you carry body fat and I can make it one day without a food. It’s not a big problem. I’m just more annoyed at myself for being in the situation in the first place. And having to take the lower route in order to get resupply. I wonder how this affects the FKT? But I’ve got no control for this if I can’t go into the mountains for three days with no food!!

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Day 23 🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees.

ℹ️Stats: mission get resupply!

Weather: sunny, spots of rain & lightning ⚡️ in the evening

From: Bonac

Start time: 7.50am

To: before ONF Refuge d’Artigue

End time: 9pm

Accommodation: camped

Terrain: everything! Roads, forests, little streams, mud, roots, meadows, grassy, rocky.

Cicerone guidebook stages: 32A & most of 33

🥾Km: 38.67

🥾Miles: 24

🦶Steps: 47,394

Ascent: 1680 m

Descent: 1501 m

*I had to do a side quest to a super market. Which was approx 5k I paused my watch, but I don’t know if this will have affected the step count.

Total Distance 580/955km 60% Done ✅

💰Costs: €62 - supermarket shop

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 9/10

Fatigue: 3/10

Ease of terrain: 4/10

⭐️Highlights: really impressed with the distance I coved today. The first part was lower level, so not massive climbs. Which made it easier. There was also a lot more downhill road walking and forest walking, which made it more manageable.

🏔️Challenges: getting towards 9pm

, getting dark, starting to rain and I’m walking through a forest, very limited visibility. I wasn’t going to make it to the refuge, so needed to find somewhere to camp. But zero options (as by the side of a river, on a steep bank) found a cottage which had an abandoned garden, with just enough space for a tent. I made it work. The lightening then started - which freaked me out.

💭Thoughts: I think I need to start doing bigger days and really start to challenge myself.

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Day 24🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees.

ℹ️Stats:

Weather: damp, windy 🌬️ & rainy - little bit of sun at the end of the day

From: before ONF Refuge d’Artigue

Start time: 8.30am

To: Col de la Serre du Cot

End time: 7.40pm

Accommodation: cabin - bed - ish! On my blow up air mattress. Shared the cabin with mice 🐁

Terrain: grassy, forests, rocks

Cicerone guidebook stages: end of 33, 34 & half of 35

🥾Km: 2.21 + 23.80 ‎ = 26.01

🥾Miles: 16

🦶Steps: 2166 +25,938 ‎ = 28,104

Ascent: 155m + 1869m ‎ = 2,024 m

Descent: 10m + 1347m ‎ = 1,357 m

Total Distance 606/955km 63% Done ✅

💰Costs: €0

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 7/10

Fatigue: 4/10

Ease of terrain: 4/10

⭐️Highlights: finding the cabin on the col. It’s too windy and exposed to camp. So perfect to stay indoors (even if there looks to be a few mouse droppings!)

🏔️Challenges: rough start to the day, low motivation, rainy, windy, wet, with a big mountain to climb. Descending down the other side was better, drier, but long road walking.

💭Thoughts: the weather isn’t looking great over the next couple of days which is gonna make things interesting in terms of distances I can do. I really need some sunshine.

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Day 25🥾Trekking the GR10 - Through the French 🇫🇷 Pyrenees: Le Sentier des Pyrenees.

ℹ️Stats:

Weather: misty, windy, wet, rain all day 🌧️

From: Col de la Serre du Cot

Start time: 9.35am

To: before Jasse du Fouillet

End time: 4.20pm

Accommodation: camped 🏕️

Terrain: mud, water, animal shit, rocks, leaves, more mud

Cicerone guidebook stages: end of 35, half of stage 36

🥾Km: 17.64

🥾Miles: 11

🦶Steps: 22,370

Ascent: 1043

Descent: 1438

Total Distance 623/955km 65% Done ✅

💰Costs: €14.44 - rice cakes, crisps, Nutella, cheese.

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 5/10

Fatigue: 4/10

Ease of terrain: 6/10

⭐️Highlights: getting into my tent at 430 and finally getting dry. All my clothes are just so wet I was wringing them out.

🏔️Challenges: the non-stop rain was just depressing. Not being able to see anything because it was misty. Plus it was walking through rivers of shit. And I mean that literally all the animal shit combined with water and rain descending, down a steep mountain, it was a shocking combination and never-ending.

Plus I interrupted a massive herd of sheep trying to get through and the giant dogs were barking at me and then a shepherd came over. I thought he was shouting at me - he wasn’t, he was shouting at the dogs who were barking at me. I was apologising to him. It was all a bit of a nightmare.

💭Thoughts: honestly, it was just when can I stop walking and set my tent up to get warm. Is it okay to stop walking at 3 o’clock. Similar to drinking it was a little too early. I needed at least push on till about 4 o’clock or 5 o’clock and then at least I’d covered a bit more distance. But I found some flat Ground and decided to stop. As I was descending and it was wet and steep so not many options.

I was going a lot slower, so therefore I was getting colder and I was very aware of my body temperature.

I knew I couldn’t keep going for too much longer because I was just too wet and too cold. I needed to stop. 🛑

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👉 The journey continues! Check out Part 6: GR10 Days 26–31 as I push further through the French Pyrenees ⛰️🇫🇷✨

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