Across the Pyrenees on red wine and ibuprofen

We left Encamp on day 42, heading for the refugio de L’Illa and the high mountains again. The feel of these peaks is a little different from the previous high peaks as they don’t seem quite as formidable. However the climb was long and we walked through a conservation area called “Zone de Humid” which was a forest area and humid it certainly was, as well as being absolutely wick with flies that buzz around your ears and eyes. The only redeeming feature of today’s slog was the end and the newly built Refugio which is clean, not smelly and has bigger bunks with more room. Nobody has to sleep next to a “Stinky Pete”