AchtungDrempels 13 hours ago • 100%
Ouch
AchtungDrempels 19 hours ago • 100%
#Wordle1187 4/6* Grade: B
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AchtungDrempels 2 days ago • 100%
I'm still not convinced on rglullis' business model
They need $300000 - $450000 a year to live in minimal comfort? Sounds real modest :)
AchtungDrempels 2 days ago • 100%
#Wordle1186 5/6* Grade: C+
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https://gradle.app/#4yzzewLgsi5wloOjYDdbihwpd
Did not like this game.
AchtungDrempels 3 days ago • 100%
That's kinda unfair that you geht those f grades while i get c+ and d- :) Grading is whacky.
AchtungDrempels 3 days ago • 100%
#Wordle1185 5/6* Grade: B-
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AchtungDrempels 4 days ago • 100%
#Wordle1184 5/6* Grade: C
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AchtungDrempels 5 days ago • 100%
AchtungDrempels 5 days ago • 100%
Those are great, but somehow all the cans that i am buying now seem to come with their own "zip". Haven't used the opener in a good while.
AchtungDrempels 6 days ago • 100%
Sleeping pad shnozzle bags (pump sacks).
AchtungDrempels 6 days ago • 100%
AchtungDrempels 7 days ago • 100%
Insufficient or no bike lights are no main reason for crashes with bicycles. More than 80% of crashes happen in full daylight, about 10% of people ride with insufficient or no lights, that makes max 2% of crashes that happen due to insufficient lights, that is if the reason in these 2% was actually the insufficient lights and not something else. Numbers for Germany.
Maybe it's a nice light for some people, but I doubt this would have a significant effect on actual safety.
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Not starting guides, like jlai.lu it's there but some links deep hidden. This is such an obvious user experience problem that this - in my opinion - needs to be featured prominently in the main sidebar. Almost everywhere you have to dig deep to even understand that you cannot find all the communities hosted on other instances, unless you use these tools, or have a huge instance like world so basically everything is subscribed to by somebody.
That's why mander.xyz, lemmy.ca and aussie.zone get my gold award :)
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
Oh, i have missed that. Sorry! Updated my comment.
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
I was lamenting that instances don't link to community browsers / crawlers.
The link you sent has a link to this post, https://jlai.lu/post/541698, which has links in the Guides (en Anglais) section to external sites, world's getting started guide and some other, both linking to the dead browse.feddit.de link. Really hard to find, got to be really dedicated i guess :) And now the link is even dead, haha.
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
Use the search and select “federated” “Communities” filter
This only finds communities that someone on that instance already subscribed to. Absolutely not feasble for small instances and niche topics.
Know about the Lemmyverse because it’s in their guides
What guides though, that's what i mean. Or can you link me the feddit.org, slrpnk, sopuli etc guide?
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
Where does it link to a community browser (scraper)? I could not find it.
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
Yeah that would be a good idea maybe. Pretty dead community though.
discuss.online also features only the dead link in the "starting guide" btw.
Iwas going through instances and it is actually staggering. This is what i have collected so far:
Best practice (Link from main sidebar)
lemmy.ca (but also links to dead browse.feddit.de link)
mander.xyz (but also links to dead browse.feddit.de link)
aussie.zone (links to dead browse.feddit.de link only)
Tolerable practice (Link from "starting guide")
lemm.ee (dead browse.feddit.de link but also lemmyverse)
lemmy.world (dead browse.feddit.de link)
sh.itjust.works (copy of world's guide so same problem)
discuss.online (dead browse.feddit.de link)
jlai.lu (bravo! :) *edited
Intolerable anti-fedi practice :) (no findable mention of community browsers)
lemmy.zip
slrpnk.net
lemmy.ml
sopuli.xyz
programming.dev
midwest.social
feddit.it
feddit.org
feddit.dk
feddit.nu
feddit.uk
feddit.nl
fedia.io
lemmy.blahaj.zone
lemmy.dbzer0.com
I find this really disappointing. How the hell are people on these instances, especially small ones even find niche communities on other instances? It's not like lemmyverse gets discussed much anymore.
The link to https://browse.feddit.de/ is dead and should be updated to https://lemmyverse.net/communities. Personally i think it would even make sense to link this from the main site sidebar. Not because it is a problem finding communities on other instances from within world, at least this should be the best instance to be able to, but as a function of being a "role model" for other instances.
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
@Blaze@feddit.org falling asleep with a smile on their face tonight :)
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
Thanks for the update!
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
#Wordle1179 4/6* Grade: B+
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AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
You can just roll back, no force needed :) lots of people ride one way up and down. Or if you're north of those passes you could also do a round like Bonette, then down via col de moutiers (gravel) then continue to descend the lower part of cayolle ramp, like this. I'm sure it would be an incredible day, take your time, don't power yourself out at the bottom, have low gears and bring something to eat and sugary snacks. Amazing stuff.
As for a bikepacking tour i think you should plan riding a route des grandes alpes variants for your next holidays, and bring your drone too :) Lots of campsites on the way, no need to wild camp. But thunderstorm high up is scary shit.
Nice videos of great looking places!
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
Yeah, you absolutely should, or col de la cayolle, also beautiful, less high but mellow climb from Barcelonette.
Cayolle
Or col d'allos, it is currently closed so you get to cycle it traffic free, apart some other cyclists (construction is only between the pass and La Foux, but it is ridable with care).
Oh man, i am envious of your location, what a place the mercantour is.
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
#Wordle1178 4/6* Grade: B
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AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
Brawn. @hitstun@fedia.io guessed it too before drawn, learned a new word today.
AchtungDrempels 1 week ago • 100%
Thanks, i'll look it up.
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 87%
Great info, nice to meet you too.
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 100%
#Wordle1177 6/6* Grade: C
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AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 100%
That sounds good! I want to try sour dough too.
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 90%
Or maybe everybody should breathe through their pants, calm down a bit, share the road, that kinda stuff.
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 100%
#Wordle1176 4/6* Grade: C+
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⬜🟨⬜🟩🟩 F
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https://gradle.app/#20r0ud0SuzGNSlt5iK1vX
Somehow put the o twice in the same wrong spot.
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 100%
Thak you! I have been following the family dramas of three pigeon couples in my yard since winter and nobody to talk to about it, haha. I feel like my friends think i'm crazy.
Removing the nest was kinda yuck, some weird substances there. And so much pigeon shit. But the lil ones turned out amazing. Compared to the other young pigeons they seem to be in amazing shape. Photos from today:
the older one
I believe the older one is a male, i think it is doing warning calls when i get out on the balcony, but it sounds very un pigeon like, cute baby pigeon sound.
lil one
Haven't seen it in for two days, was already a bit worried. It slept quite a few more days on my balcony but no more. It has no problem eating out of my hand, brother is a bit more sceptical but does it too. Mom and pops are also daily guests, as is the "aunt" and the poor "uncle" who took care of the widow, which sadly must have passed away like two weeks ago. She was such a gentle and beautiful pigeon RIP. 🥲 Life goes on.
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 100%
Pigeons all to be molting looking all scruffy.
Nice kinda rare shot of a feral pij sitting on a tree :)
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 100%
#Wordle1175 4/6* Grade: B-
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AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 100%
Yeah postin pictures on lemmy works pretty good 😁 Thank you for sharing, looks lovely!
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 100%
I should maybe add that i have quite some experience camping, know what makes a good spot and how to set up my tent properly and will always have some more dry layers to put on if it gets too cold. I have quality sleeping bags, which temperature ratings i trust, or actually can confirm.
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 66%
I would reckon that should work, if you are camping at those temperatures surely you must also have some dry layers to put on in your car if it gets too cold somehow. I was sleeping comfortable in my 25°F limit bag in a 32°F, non windy night (comfort temp 35°F) in just underpants. I am a hot sleeper though. If it is just the odd night i would noit worry, but i am also always keen to save weight and volume.
If you are scratching around the 32°F for multiple nights though, maybe look at some sleeping bag liners too, they're pretty cool and can be used nicely as a sole "bag" in summer and give you a few degrees extra in cold nights. Also way easier to wash than a sleeping bag.
And yeah, insulated pad is important, but seems like you are good on that end.
AchtungDrempels 2 weeks ago • 100%
#Wordle1174 5/6* Grade: B-
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Passed by this amazing water wheel some time ago, just spinning along in this little river. Was such a nice find, i loved it.
I had posted this photo a while ago in the birding community, thought it would fit in well here too. The robin in the rain made me think of it 😁
Apparently the unsticking of [this post](https://lemmy.world/post/59733) in the !lemmy@lemmy.ml community did not federate and should be unstickied on world's end.
> *Papa and the kids, four days ago, the first day they left the balcony* I thought they'd be gone by last weekend, but flight school apparently takes some time. Was awesome seeing their first excursions off of the balcony and onto the roof gutter. I was so happy to be there for it. And i have a video of them returning from their first little flight, haha. The older one seems now to go flying with papa, the smaller one - i think - with mama, at least they showed up together yesterday. The younger one still sleeps on my balcony. It has been alone there for the last two nights, first evening alone it seemed a bit worried. Maybe today it will find somewhere else to sleep, i think it may be two days younger than the other one. This weekend i'll clean up the mess and barricade their nest spot so they don't keep breeding here. It was nice to have them but i kinda want the balcony back for myself, i was minimizing my balcony time so they could do their pigeon stuff in peace. Really caring parents, very nice to see.
and their little stinkybums. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/379e2388-83cc-4c50-9b97-791849f7c0f1.jpeg) Today one of the lil' stinkybums flew onto a flower pot. They'll be flying out into the dangerous world in a few days. Yesterday evening, opposite side of the garden, a kestrel caught a bird. Don't know what bird it was who had a nest under the roof gutter, the swifts are already on their way to Africa.
Same dough as yesterday, just 36 hours instead of 12. Supermarket brand pizza flour, 58% water, mashed canned tomatos, gouda, bit of fresh mozza, hot peppers and oregano. I was scared to stretch the dough further, been a really hot day and it seemed easy to rip. Oh my god so delicious.
Supermarket brand pizza flour, 58% water, mashed canned tomatos, fresh mozza, grana padano, olive oil and basil.
> *Horse looking at out-of-fashion tech* Personally i like them quite a bit, the small gear steps, i am using the simultaneous shifting like front 1 up, rear 1 down a lot to find myself in the best cadence. I know people being happy with their switch over to 1x setups, but tbh i don't see myself doing that at all. I guess 2x, but i wonder how you would get to the small steps, like do you do something like front 1 up, rear 3(?) down, or just get used to the bigger steps? Do you think 3x drivetrains will ever make a comeback or are they fading out for good?
This is my favorite pigeon of the goofy balcony crew. She moves very funny, and often times she fluffs up her head feathers which i find super cute, like in the picture, but the other feathers aren't fluffed up. She and her lover came by with their baby, but i try to have a heart of stone and not feed them to not disturb the breeding couple on my balcony. Her lover is also very funny. Not sure how you all feel about pigeon content in here. I love pigeons.
This is a photo from two years ago, i stood there for a good minute wondering how the hell and why this weird cycle path was there. It is in southern France, on the climb to Col d'Ecre, bit north of Nice. Take a guess, i finally fully understand.
So after the Pyrenees i kept cris crossing around France, bit of Cevennes, Provence, Verdon, Haute Alpes, back to Provence, Vercors, Chartreuse, Jura then to Freibug to take a train home. Title picture is taken on the Montagne de Lure, Mont Ventoux' little brother close to Sisteron. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/3690b572-0e6d-4730-ac78-0508ddc113e6.jpeg) > *Gorge du Tarn in the Cevennes. I was getting sick here again* ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/d180814a-49e4-4543-aa52-f35a077b9d4b.jpeg) > *Riding out of Gorges du Verdon to Castellane* ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/4482d4ca-4ef5-443d-b710-e65a39eced51.jpeg) > *On the descend of the Col de la Sinne, looking onto the village Ilonse* ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/8802177c-d533-4190-95bd-938602c38480.jpeg) > *This is not some gravel track but the still closed Col d'Allos on my way back south after riding Bonette. Nobody around but two roadies.* ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/b2c81d61-410a-4f83-8388-bdc2b53cd578.jpeg) > *Riding the prealpes, from Digne-les-Bains to Sisteron via St Geniez, very nice.* ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/ff7d99af-9382-49f1-8892-1054e6f3e2c1.jpeg) > *Vercors mountains look awesome, picture taken close to Die* ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/33673d2b-596c-4c59-9683-9eea16e40f71.jpeg) > *Riding out of Vercors down to Grenoble* ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/7be4d363-b7ef-4b42-819d-c34bb275c1e1.jpeg) > *After Grenoble i rode through Chartreuse mountain range then down to the Lac du Bourget towards Jura* ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2c74f892-f4eb-4a4f-9020-b2499f51e575.jpeg) > *Second to last day, in french Jura, after that i rode to Freiburg to take a train home* Route of France section [Part 1, Perpignan - Barême](https://bikerouter.de/#map=7/42.843/5.054/standard&lonlats=2.894061,42.699098;3.039093,42.789705;3.003645,43.183738;3.12664,43.169636;3.164234,43.15976;3.197987,43.186987;3.248177,43.234449;3.189468,43.238938;3.167496,43.268992;3.623428,43.370118;3.88916,43.604831;3.552361,43.700164;3.534851,43.722118;3.532019,43.74618;3.50275,43.740978;3.713036,43.933056;3.701599,43.986979;3.606262,43.989896;3.601542,44.019729;3.573856,44.02107;3.538198,44.072709;3.547339,44.091931;3.484383,44.108828;3.207064,44.191427;3.537598,44.370042;4.086227,44.124579;4.369812,43.832808;4.655972,43.804198;5.398407,43.874282;5.783443,43.832931;5.983601,43.837196;6.221008,43.848024;6.227875,43.828986;6.341579,43.779944;6.390738,43.780985;6.357608,43.747506;6.340292,43.779555;6.512564,43.846051;6.555362,43.858019;6.635914,43.865154;6.907825,43.862448;6.895938,43.954986;7.068501,44.025405;6.922717,44.256638;6.807307,44.320503;6.649647,44.385978;6.593685,44.297213;6.554933,44.096553;6.42698,44.054286;6.367993,43.952999&profile=trekking) and [Part 2, Barême - Freiburg](https://bikerouter.de/#map=15/47.9981/7.8452/standard,Waymarked_Trails-Cycling&lonlats=6.36838,43.953294;6.320282,44.00781;6.23311,44.090922;6.148814,44.149828;6.053091,44.245139;5.944698,44.196885;5.876312,44.15067;5.787392,44.115873;5.426044,44.103653;5.278413,44.173496;5.27612,44.27629;5.354075,44.372001;5.36783,44.463055;5.378427,44.485131;5.415198,44.550938;5.432739,44.690331;5.387828,44.7175;5.369997,44.75314;5.440979,45.017083;5.477135,45.034732;5.551872,45.071477;5.647488,45.182904;5.65238,45.179149;5.681305,45.177697;5.728941,45.19275;5.758724,45.243688;5.808163,45.339615;5.854082,45.415516;5.824471,45.429181;5.817239,45.469358;5.920896,45.566367;5.863202,45.648608;5.862751,45.652569;5.912962,45.691472;5.85022,45.816956;5.842323,45.834063;5.838203,45.843145;5.836916,45.958645;5.836573,45.958168;5.823784,46.106642;5.866528,46.220215;5.996089,46.366184;5.981584,46.397334;5.975447,46.447507;6.022396,46.522204;5.937381,46.499547;5.898371,46.499937;5.954762,46.576034;6.075525,46.659901;6.3519,46.903426;6.468201,47.00333;6.571283,47.026381;6.608877,47.035918;6.604242,47.057394;6.652737,47.073756;6.716251,47.120268;6.822767,47.176417;6.867313,47.202883;6.90362,47.233218;6.946449,47.260127;6.914005,47.279841;6.923994,47.348012;7.07571,47.416973;7.337494,47.746042;7.850933,47.995238&profile=trekking)
They are really well hidden and silent, didn't even realize for two days after i came back from my holidays. I already knew this pigeon couple from before my holidays (was gone for two months), they are like the regulars in my garden. This is the father sitting on the eggs. BTW I had made this mess deliberately to keep pigeons from trying to breed there, it seemed to work while i was at home i guess. Hope when the little ones hatch they won't fall into any gaps there. I tried to call the local bird help, if maybe they would swap the eggs for fake ones, but i could not reach anybody, they have too much to do this time of the year and i reckon pigeons breeding on a balcony ain't no emergency either.
Is it maybe planned to be able to set a custom tag for a community instead of one pulled from the url? I reckon there are many communities where this would make more sense. Like the community i am moderating is c/bicycle_touring, but i think #biketouring and #bikepacking are the hashtags that are being used on mastodon for this stuff.
In the Jura. Last wild camp of the trip, need to take a shower before i get on the train :)
Lavendre, Mont Ventoux, Soleil. I love it.
When i went onto my first solo cycle trip some years ago (from germany to marseille, france), my coworkers joked that i should ride mont ventoux. I had no idea what mont ventoux was, but read it up. On that trip i happened to cycle around this mythical mountain, looked awesome, but i never seriously considered going up ever. On two more cycle trips i cycled around mont ventoux on different routes, and it always looked just so cool from afar. This trip i wanted to hit mont ventoux, but i got sick basically on the western foot of it. I rode in recovery mode east past it, through the valley, looked awesome again. I then continued towards the high alps but eventually decided to turn around because of the weather forecast, back south into the prealps of provence. And today i actually got to ride it. I rode it from Sault, because that's where i was coming from, which i guess is not what the OG's do or consider "riding mont ventoux", but cycle tourers are aloud to do that, haha. Lots of roadies going up there. And it lived up to its name, it was real windy. In the morning at the bottom of the climb one roadie told me that it might be too dangerous to ride to the summit today but thankfully the wind chilled out a bit as i was going up, and also the cloud that had covered the top went away. Picture is bit below the top on the descend to Malaucene. That glider plane was going nuts, that stuff looks absolutely crazy.
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Won't be getting any higher, at least not on this trip. On the Cime de la Bonette. Riding mountains gives me a crazy high, the combination of exercise and the views that come up. There are places where you can get similar views "for free", without the work, but for me the feeling does not really compare.
The one where it says "terre de cyclistes". Pretty cool slogan, metropole nice cote d'azur.
Get all dizzy standing at these cliffs.
Met this guy walking across France in the cevennes, he started walking with his two donkeys at his home in Colmar, Alsace and was on his way to visit his kids at their farm at the foot of the Pyrenees. He was following the GR7 hiking trail.
This is a bit of an older link, don't think he updated in a while. I still have a look at it every once in a while. Ultralight with little money, taken to the extreme (bubble wrap sleeping pad anyone?). I think he has some really good ideas and interesting thoughts, also like his humor.
You guys must be thinking i am full of shit, but another cat just walked into my tent. This time at "camping solau" in Espot, Spain. She stayed for about 15 minutes and is gone now. I know already that this cat belongs to the campsite, she hopped on my lap yesterday while i was sitting in front of the reception. Don't know her name yet, but i will ask when i get out. *edit: Cat's called Cookie
Just as i had set up my tent she came in, was raining outside. We've been hanging out here for half an hour already. I hope she won't spike my sleeping pad. Necklace says her name is Kyra. Love it 🥹
I have seen a lot of the village signs being upside down here in the french pyrenees. I was wondering if that was just some guy having fun, is it a national sport or some village rivalry? I think i have seen this elsewhere in france too, but here it seems very prevalent.
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I was kind of hoping to get a more accurate plagiat of the community banner. I deliberately killed some time before the climb because my app said the sun would come out later, but nope.
In the western pyrenees, Basque country.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/15863592 I will update this topic in the [!bicycle_touring@lemmy.world](https://lemmy.world/c/bicycle_touring) community in the coming weeks with some more lengthy sermons. > Oh my gody guys and girls. I am beyond hyped right now, two days into riding the Pyrenees west to east. > > I started my pyrenees route yesterday from St. Jean de Luz on the atlantic coast. I thought road cycling was popular in spain, but here in this french town - and i'm trying to be accurate here - i saw about a hundred roadies riding out into the mountains this morning. Crazy. > > It is a beautiful sunny saturday, i feel like it's the first really warm day while i am cycling on this trip, it's 25° - which was basically the temperature i expected all along. The route for the day would take me over two smaller passes, but starting from sea level it's still a lot to climb. First pass is the Puerto de Oxtondo, it's not very spectacular and has some traffic, totally forgot about motorbikers. On the way to the pass i cross into spain, the downhill is sweet and at some point i turn east to climb up the Izpegiko or Col d'Ispeguy, a border pass after which i'll be back on the french side of the basque country. That one is much nicer, hardly any traffic. A guy touring with a cargo bike comes zipping down as i climb up, waving happily. On top of the pass is a bar, i have a drink, then sit on the grass to eat a banana and some cookies and enjoy the view. There's horses around and one cute baby horse comes up to me, i pet it a bit and it keeps demanding more. It starts to nibble on my tshirt. I try to hush it away, it's been hanging around for a while. Then it starts to nibble on my forkbag. Eventually it lets go of my stuff and licks the cylinders of a motorbike. Horses i guess. > > ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/898d066b-0eb7-4cfa-8359-d056aaf3b513.jpeg) > > *About to descend the Izpegiko* > > Downhill is gorgeous and i roll into St Jean Pied de Port, a major starting town for the camino crowd. I check in on the municipal campsite, whole bunch of cycle tourers there (hikers too), i assume most of them are doing the camino too. I go into town to eat at a bar and befriend an american guy, we decide to share a table, he was also waiting for a free table. He is going to start walking the camino the next day. > > Back in my tent i plan my route for the next day, as i have already went off the track i had originally planned. > > I start right in time to when the carrefour supermarket opens, i buy food for 2 and a half days because it seems like i won't pass anything really. Turns out i just had the food type poi's disabled in my navigation app. > > It is going to be 17° and cloudy today, but the wind isn't cold so it feels kinda good. I'll be heading into the Irati forest. As i'm riding towards my first climb there's a sign that says col d'iraty 17 km at 5.7 %. That sounds alright. My plan is to ride only about two thirds of it, then go onto what looks like a hiking track, then do a little river crossing onto a mountainbike route. A sign comes up 17.5 km to the col, next 500m will average 11%. I guess that'll only make the rest a bit milder. But it turns out the whole climb isn't very even and i started a climb that will average [almost 10% for the next 9km](https://bikerouter.de/#map=13/43.0680/-1.1022/standard&lonlats=-1.119447,43.105221;-1.088805,43.063543&profile=trekking). If i had had a look at the grades yesterday evening, i'm sure i'd have found a different route. The climb is really moody and cloudy, but i still enjoy it, there's a whole lot of vultures dipping in and out of the clouds, which looks amazing, very calm climb too, just a few roadies and a couple RVs. > > ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1860cf3a-be91-42b1-a64d-30febe67fa80.jpeg) > > *Climbing up the Burdinkurutxetako* > > The climb has some kind of pre-pass, it goes by the snappy name "Burdinkurutxetako", it is basically where the steep section ends and i will turn onto the hiking track. It is super beautiful forest, i ride along the creek. There comes a section that looked like hike-a-bike, but i am able to "ride" down, walking speed and one foot on the ground kinda. Then i am at the river crossing. I gues this is the first *actual* river crossing i did. Water is above knee high in parts. There are diagonal rocky furrows in parts that look super sketchy, all the rocks are covored with algae too. I find a spot with hardly any furrows, do a test walk to the other side. It's pretty damn slippery and the current kinda strong. I decide to carry over bags and bike seperately. I bring two bags at once, i think having one hand free could be helpful. Last i bring over the bike, which is way easier. > > ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e5bc0061-0347-4609-8e1a-6d690155751c.jpeg) > > *About to cross. There is a big toad hidden in this picture, i guess it's really hard to find, whoever finds it will get an upvote* > > I don't know if the it was the right call to cross the river 7 times (incl. test walk) or if i should have just gone with the complete bike. Maybe the current would have been worse with the bags, but it felt really stable with the bike as an extra post. While i'm fooling around with my crap by the river, the sun comes out. On the other side of the river is a picnic table and i eat some waffles and try to let my sandals dry. River crossing was also a border crossing, i am back on the spanish side now. > > Then i get onto the mtb track, which is really a gravel road. It gets cloudy again, and i ride a climb way into the clouds, then a real fun downhill out of the clouds, then climb back into the clouds again. On top of the climb is a hikers bar, open on the weekend. I drink a coke on the terrasse, which should have a fantastic view but it's all in the clouds. The plan is to go like some 20km more, but fiddling around with my phone i see that there's a refugio just 2km further up a road. It is a bit early, but the sun breaks through the clouds again, i can see into the mountains and think that would be real sweet. The clouds move real fast, i get a view for 20 seconds and then it's all just fog again. And then a view again. I order two beers at the bar, one of them to go, some crisps and another bottle of water. The bar closes at 6, i ride up up to the refugio and get a glimpse of really great views and i start to get super fucking high on my trip. Cycle touring is the best. > > The refugio is again a bit shoddy, but i place a chair outside of it, sheltered from the wind and eat some crisps, drink the other beer, watch birds of preyg, enjoy the view and start writing a post for lemmy. > > ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/32977107-78e1-443c-b4c4-414aea7bd2c4.jpeg) > > *Chilling at the refugio* > > At 8 o'clock i am covered in clouds, the wind picks up and it gets cold, but in the refugio it's warm, someone has made a fire here today, the warmth comes from the fireplace. I cook some pasta, then some tea, have a look outside but it's still all clouds. > > > I am sending this the day after, there was no connection in the refugio. Morning was still all clouds, but i descended out of them already. On the descend i remembered what i wanted to buy last week at Decathlon in Pamplona: Gloves.
Oh my gody guys and girls. I am beyond hyped right now, two days into riding the Pyrenees west to east. I started my pyrenees route yesterday from St. Jean de Luz on the atlantic coast. I thought road cycling was popular in spain, but here in this french town - and i'm trying to be accurate here - i saw about a hundred roadies riding out into the mountains this morning. Crazy. It is a beautiful sunny saturday, i feel like it's the first really warm day while i am cycling on this trip, it's 25° - which was basically the temperature i expected all along. The route for the day would take me over two smaller passes, but starting from sea level it's still a lot to climb. First pass is the Puerto de Oxtondo, it's not very spectacular and has some traffic, totally forgot about motorbikers. On the way to the pass i cross into spain, the downhill is sweet and at some point i turn east to climb up the Izpegiko or Col d'Ispeguy, a border pass after which i'll be back on the french side of the basque country. That one is much nicer, hardly any traffic. A guy touring with a cargo bike comes zipping down as i climb up, waving happily. On top of the pass is a bar, i have a drink, then sit on the grass to eat a banana and some cookies and enjoy the view. There's horses around and one cute baby horse comes up to me, i pet it a bit and it keeps demanding more. It starts to nibble on my tshirt. I try to hush it away, it's been hanging around for a while. Then it starts to nibble on my forkbag. Eventually it lets go of my stuff and licks the cylinders of a motorbike. Horses i guess. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/898d066b-0eb7-4cfa-8359-d056aaf3b513.jpeg) > *About to descend the Izpegiko* Downhill is gorgeous and i roll into St Jean Pied de Port, a major starting town for the camino crowd. I check in on the municipal campsite, whole bunch of cycle tourers there (hikers too), i assume most of them are doing the camino too. I go into town to eat at a bar and befriend an american guy, we decide to share a table, he was also waiting for a free table. He is going to start walking the camino the next day. Back in my tent i plan my route for the next day, as i have already went off the track i had originally planned. I start right in time to when the carrefour supermarket opens, i buy food for 2 and a half days because it seems like i won't pass anything really. Turns out i just had the food type poi's disabled in my navigation app. It is going to be 17° and cloudy today, but the wind isn't cold so it feels kinda good. I'll be heading into the Irati forest. As i'm riding towards my first climb there's a sign that says col d'iraty 17 km at 5.7 %. That sounds alright. My plan is to ride only about two thirds of it, then go onto what looks like a hiking track, then do a little river crossing onto a mountainbike route. A sign comes up 17.5 km to the col, next 500m will average 11%. I guess that'll only make the rest a bit milder. But it turns out the whole climb isn't very even and i started a climb that will average [almost 10% for the next 9km](https://bikerouter.de/#map=13/43.0680/-1.1022/standard&lonlats=-1.119447,43.105221;-1.088805,43.063543&profile=trekking). If i had had a look at the grades yesterday evening, i'm sure i'd have found a different route. The climb is really moody and cloudy, but i still enjoy it, there's a whole lot of vultures dipping in and out of the clouds, which looks amazing, very calm climb too, just a few roadies and a couple RVs. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/1860cf3a-be91-42b1-a64d-30febe67fa80.jpeg) > *Climbing up the Burdinkurutxetako* The climb has some kind of pre-pass, it goes by the snappy name "Burdinkurutxetako", it is basically where the steep section ends and i will turn onto the hiking track. It is super beautiful forest, i ride along the creek. There comes a section that looked like hike-a-bike, but i am able to "ride" down, walking speed and one foot on the ground kinda. Then i am at the river crossing. I gues this is the first *actual* river crossing i did. Water is above knee high in parts. There are diagonal rocky furrows in parts that look super sketchy, all the rocks are covored with algae too. I find a spot with hardly any furrows, do a test walk to the other side. It's pretty damn slippery and the current kinda strong. I decide to carry over bags and bike seperately. I bring two bags at once, i think having one hand free could be helpful. Last i bring over the bike, which is way easier. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e5bc0061-0347-4609-8e1a-6d690155751c.jpeg) > *About to cross. There is a big toad hidden in this picture, i guess it's really hard to find, whoever finds it will get an upvote* I don't know if the it was the right call to cross the river 7 times (incl. test walk) or if i should have just gone with the complete bike. Maybe the current would have been worse with the bags, but it felt really stable with the bike as an extra post. While i'm fooling around with my crap by the river, the sun comes out. On the other side of the river is a picnic table and i eat some waffles and try to let my sandals dry. River crossing was also a border crossing, i am back on the spanish side now. Then i get onto the mtb track, which is really a gravel road. It gets cloudy again, and i ride a climb way into the clouds, then a real fun downhill out of the clouds, then climb back into the clouds again. On top of the climb is a hikers bar, open on the weekend. I drink a coke on the terrasse, which should have a fantastic view but it's all in the clouds. The plan is to go like some 20km more, but fiddling around with my phone i see that there's a refugio just 2km further up a road. It is a bit early, but the sun breaks through the clouds again, i can see into the mountains and think that would be real sweet. The clouds move real fast, i get a view for 20 seconds and then it's all just fog again. And then a view again. I order two beers at the bar, one of them to go, some crisps and another bottle of water. The bar closes at 6, i ride up up to the refugio and get a glimpse of really great views and i start to get super fucking high on my trip. Cycle touring is the best. The refugio is again a bit shoddy, but i place a chair outside of it, sheltered from the wind and eat some crisps, drink the other beer, watch birds of preyg, enjoy the view and start writing a post for lemmy. ![](https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/32977107-78e1-443c-b4c4-414aea7bd2c4.jpeg) > *Chilling at the refugio* At 8 o'clock i am covered in clouds, the wind picks up and it gets cold, but in the refugio it's warm, someone has made a fire here today, the warmth comes from the fireplace. I cook some pasta, then some tea, have a look outside but it's still all clouds. I am sending this the day after, there was no connection in the refugio. Morning was still all clouds, but i descended out of them already. On the descend i remembered what i wanted to buy last week at Decathlon in Pamplona: Gloves.
I was talking with a friend about the basque coast in france and he told me > They do a sport called 'longe côte' where you walk quickly along the beach with water up to you chest. And what do you know, this morning i saw two groups of longe côteurs. A fascinating local sport.
Just another sparrow. But pretty happy with how the cellphone photo turned out, it was totally not scared. I bribed it with french fries though (original ones, since i am now in St Jean de Luz, France). Probably not the best food but i guess it's what it came for.
Just gave my bike and bags a rinse on this bicycle washing station, the BICIcleaner. I rode past one already yesterday but kept going, happy to find another one today. Both were in San Sebastian or a suburb town, located along cycle paths.
**Edit: ~~the problem is gone, i assume it was a buggy track.~~ The problem exists with the versio 4.7.10, from 24.04.24, which is the version that is recommended by fdroid. It is gone in the latest one from 14.05.24** I updated osmand to 4.7.10 yesterday and now it seems like the little info widget on the bottom screen shows elevation (i assume), relative to the whole track, not the 10km that are currently shown in the widget. Cannot find anything in the settings. In the what's new it said they did some changes to the graphs but i could not make sense of it. Does anybody know how i can set it back to the way it used to be, as in relative to current section of the track?