GR20 Vlog 1 | Starting the Toughest Hike in Europe

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Day 1/10 🥾GR20, Corsica 🇫🇷 ℹ️Stats: with @masonalexandra 🥳
Weather: hot 🥵 & sunny
From: Calenzana
Start time: 6.30am
To: Bivouac de l'Ortu di u Piobbu
End time: 2.05 pm
Accommodation: camped
Terrain: dusty, rocky, scrambly, switchbacks, forest

🥾Km: 12
🥾Miles: 7.5
🦶Steps: 13,390
Ascent 1550m / 5085 ft
Descent 235 m / 770ft

Total Distance 12/190km 6% Done ✅
Cicerone Guide Book - Stage 1A

💰Costs: €3.50 coke
€9 cheese & bacon omelette
€9 camping

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 7/10
Fatigue: 4/10
Ease of terrain: 6/10

⭐️Highlights: scrambling was awesome, good fun, not exposed. Views were epic.

🏔️Challenges: ran out of water about 12.30pm - it was so hot and a real slog to get to the refuge.

💭Thoughts: great to drink water again. Note to self - drink water before I leave and carry 3 litres! It’s so hot out there. The refuge seems massive - so much space to camp, it’s busy but you don’t feel on top of other people. We set of at 6.30am - but tomorrow we do need to leave earlier - because of the heat.

Day 2/10 🥾GR20, Corsica 🇫🇷 ℹ️Stats: with @masonalexandra 🥳
Weather: hot & sunny ☀️
From: Bivouac de l'Ortu di u Piobbu
Start time: 5.20am
To: Asco / Ascu Stagnu
End time: 8.15pm
Accommodation: camped
Terrain: mountains, rocky, scree, forest, flat slabs, chain links.

🥾Km: 8 + 5 ‎ = 13
🥾Miles: 5 + 3 ‎ = 8
🦶Steps:
Ascent 750m (2460ft) + 860m (2820ft)
descent 1050m (3445ft) + 710m (2330ft)

Total Distance 25/190km 13% Done ✅
Cicerone Guidebook 2A & 3

💰Costs: €2.50 coke
€3.50 magnum almond ice cream
€2 2x strawberry 🍓 yogurt
€9 camping 🏕️

Subjective feeling out of 10 on:

Enjoyment: 7/10
Fatigue: 6/10
Ease of terrain: 10/10 - one of the longest and hardest days. I have ever done on a trail.

⭐️Highlights: stunning views, bumped into a tough girl Shadi who’s shared her story on the tough girl podcast previously. What a small world. Watching the trail runners go past - amazing to watch them run up and down the massive mountains.

🏔️Challenges: alarm at 4.30am - ahhh - packing up in the dark. Having a bit of a dodge stomach- not what you want! The insane amount of a descents & ascents there was a few gnarly sections as well

💭Thoughts: I honestly don’t know what to say. I’m so brain-dead and frazzled. The Sun was relentless it never cooled down until about 9 o’clock. I was so tired at the end of the day - over 13hrs on our feet. Continuous climbing. The never ending descent. So grateful to set the tent up and lie down.

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