Restless Toes is a collection of posts about hiking, running and travelling.
An 81km endurance hike from the Spanish town of Oliana, around the Oliana reservoir and back to the starting point. The circuit went through a mountainous area on either side and the accumulated elevation difference was 6.200m.
Marxa Gràcia — Montserrat is an annual endurance hike from the Gràcia neighborhood in Barcelona to the Montserrat monastery. When I signed up for the hike I had no idea if I could at all walk the 63km.
My first mountain half-marathon in the Collserola hills above Barcelona. After some problems finding the starting line, the race was very nice.
A 5 hour hike to several peaks along the border between Spain and France, starting and terminating in Vall de Núria — crossing various peaks between Pic de Noufonts and Pic de Núria.
It was 6:59:59 AM in the quiet Pyrenees town of Ribes de Freser. The soothing sounds of the River Freser flowed through the town — accompanied with an occasional tweet from an insomniac night owl typing fervidly on their smart phone. Suddenly the tranquility of countryside was disturbed by the crowing of a rooster.
A 6 hour hike back and forth between the town Ribes de Freser in the Catalan Pyrenees to the summit of Taga (2038m). The track is technically easy but is steep at times.
We started our hike at the Sant Marti Centelles train station heading for an easy four hour hike with ruins and donkeys. It turned out to be longer than expected.
A return hike from Campdevànol to Sant Julià de Saltor. The hike included an extended detour due to presumed tricking by cows or humans.
A nice and easy hike from the town Campdevànol in the Catalan pre-pyrenees to the the church called Església de Sant Pere d’Aüira.
On a sunny Saturday in March 2010 I went for one of the coolest — yet hottest — hikes I have ever done. The path lay up onto the mountain range Fimmvörðuháls — between the glaciers Eyjafjallajökull and Mýrdalsjökull — in the southern highlands of Iceland. It was a cold day with freezing temperatures of minus ten to minus fifteen degrees centigrade. The destination was one of the hottest ones in Iceland at the time — an erupting crater in the northern part of the Fimmvörðuháls mountain range.