Day 3!

Made it over the Muvrella pass today after climbing 800m up. Beautiful views of the central mountains (see pic of the day)! On the way down to Ascu: some hiker took a bad spill, we took his backpack down. In Ascu: cold beer and steak frites waiting for us!

Mais sur!

We got lucky yesterday. Just when we had the tent set up a huge thunderstorm came up. Oops. Today first time over 2000m. Picture of the day is the view from the first pass today. There is snow!

First day!

Early start today, hit the trail at 7:20. Steep ascent with beautiful views of the coast and the mountains. 300m height still left to climb until we're at the refuge.

Corsica!

Finally arrived! 7a at airport in Bastia, then took the taxi to downtown, followed by a 3hr train ride to Calvi. We hiked on top of the citadel to finally get some training, phew. Very warm here can't wait to get in the mountains!

Tomorrow!

is the big day. Plane leaves 5:20a from Cologne and lands one hour later in Bastia/Corsica. From there we're planning to take the train to Calvi, and arrive at the trailhead in Calenzana early afternoon. Today we bought last provisions, checked gear one last time and thought about what else could go wrong. Watched Blair Witch last night to get into the hiking mood haha. Next update from Corsica!

Duesseldorf Altstadt

recovering from jetlag, meanwhile enjoying German Beer next to Rhine
river!

In Germany

Staying here till Wednesday to visit Paul's family. For once the weather is nicer than in NY!

JFK

Waiting for the plane! Manfred, Jewel forgot to write the weekly!

What is the GR20?

The GR20 is a long distance trail on the island of Corsica. It traverses the island diagonally from north to south and can be hiked within 15 days. We're planning to hike the northern part starting from Calenzana and hopefully making it all the way to Vizzavona. That should be 10 days of hiking straight. Ugh. We'll see how that goes! 

A very good online description can be found here:

http://corsica.forhikers.com/gr20

Can't wait to get there!

First post

Tickets are booked, gear is ready, we're all set to go!