Today we decided Prudence should rest her blistered feet, so we paid our albergue host to drive her to Molinaseca where we planned to get a room at the El Palacio Hostel. Since it would be a long trip for Judy and I walking from El Ganso to Molinaseca with packs, and sending our packs to Molinaseca with Prudence would leave her managing three heavy packs, we decided to go with her and get dropped of with our packs a manageable distance from our destination, a small town called Foncebadon, about 12.5 miiles from Molinaseca. We carried our full packs, but since it was mostly descent, no problem.
The hike was our first other than flat hike so far, and it was beautiful and interesting. We passed through small mountain villages separated by stretches of more trail-like path, with some up but mostly down hill hiking. The last few km were quite hot, and we are anxious to see how our acquaintance Julie and her friends fared descending after the alcohol they consumed up the mountain.
Photos: from our hotel room, along the camino (may have been featured in "The Way" movie), mountain town, representative trail section, small religious building near iron cross, wind mills in distance enjoying coffee in mountain town, vertical profile of trail.
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