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Castro Laboreiro to Cortegada (Caminho da Geira)

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Trail stats

Distance
18.69 mi
Elevation gain
1,696 ft
Technical difficulty
Moderate
Elevation loss
4,265 ft
Max elevation
3,392 ft
TrailRank 
28
Min elevation
335 ft
Trail type
One Way
Moving time
6 hours 28 minutes
Time
8 hours 13 minutes
Coordinates
5163
Uploaded
September 28, 2022
Recorded
September 2022
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near Vila, Viana do Castelo (Portugal)

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Castro Laboreiro to Cortegada (Caminho da Geira)

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PictographPhoto Altitude 3,173 ft
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Lots of difficult patches on a wet day.

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,959 ft
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Fire damage on the right. But it looks like the fire did not jump over the trail.

PictographPhoto Altitude 2,008 ft
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PictographPhoto Altitude 1,942 ft
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Cerdeiro is the first village I’ve come to since the Spanish border. I think I am using an old set of tracks. There was a bright yellow arrow turning off the road a few kilometers into Spain, but I couldn’t find any tracks I had followed that route, so I decided the safest thing was to stay with the tracks

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,916 ft
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A fascist fountain from the 1960s.

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,831 ft
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Looks like they’ve been waiting for the bus for a long time.

PictographPhoto Altitude 1,355 ft
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PictographPhoto Altitude 413 ft
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No arrow and the GPS track seem to stay on the highway, but this is where you get off

PictographPhoto Altitude 482 ft
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