Foncebadón to Ponferrada

Hello, everyone. The several days long cold snap appears to be breaking in northern Spain. Afternoon temperatures today were warm enough for us to remove layers of gear. It was nice to see the sun again.

We got on the road a little bit after 7 today. We climbed a little more--Foncebadón is pretty much at the top of a mountain--and then did some ridge walking, oops, ridge wading to visit the famous Cruz de Ferro.

The remainder of the day was a lot of tough downhill walking on rocks while threading our way around extensive puddles on the trail. Around midday we passed through the last (or first) village in the Bierzo region and sampled some of their food. They had a meat empanada that was very nice.

This is some of the water that needed to be waded or stepped around.
This is the Cantabrian mountain area, when the sun was just getting up.