GR20, Corsica
12th July 2009
I’ve just got back from a couple of weeks on Corsica leading a group on the GR 20. The GR20 is one of the most famous treks in the world and reckoned to be fairly hard. There’s a fair amount of scrambling involved, some travel over snow and fixed equipment like chains and ladders etc. so it’s fair to say it’s pretty challenging. The term “rugged beauty” might have been invented for Corsica though, it’s spectacular and I really enjoyed my first trip to the island. There’s a slightly different flavour to the refuges to the normal alpine huts and I’d been particularly looking forward to staying at the bergeries which are where farmers live and tend their flocks for part of the year following the old practice of transhumance, they didn’t disappoint and I loved trying the local cheese, and the charcuterie which is famed for being produced from semi-wild pigs who roam around the island foraging and searching out their favourite food of chestnuts.
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July 13th, 2009 at Mon, 13 Jul 2009 09:31:10 +0200
Great pictures Ian!
“Rugged” doesn’t really do it justice.
A fantastic route I would definitely like to do some day.