Tag: 2022

Lot of rain – 75 km of hiking – no flights, that’s all I wanted to say.

On the fourth day of the race, Xevi Bonet has had a great day in which he was able to advance several kilometers by air, in difficult terrain with a very low ceiling and dense forest, after having marked the TP Arbas early in the day.

To the surprise of the team, after positioning himself in a good place to mark the next TP, at the Beyrède pass, the organization announced a 24-hour inactivity sanction for Xevi for having flown over a protected area. On this fifth day, the team is resting and we are following the progress of the rest of the teams and studying the possibilities for the penultimate day of the race

Así, llegamos a Midi du Bigorre.

Estamos muy contentos con nuestra posición, y esperamos seguir presionando hasta el final de la carrera.

Today we decided to stop our race because of a growing pain in Édouard’s foot. It is a shame because the body, mind and spirit wanted to continue and go on.

See you in Porte de la Selva! 

Day 3 started in the clouds. We finished day 2 earlier with a few teams gathering in a small village named Mayerau. That place, Mayerau, stays in our memories like a dream. We arrived in the fog, at night, exhausted. We left in the fog, in the morning, a little bit less exhausted. A place that will stay levitating somewhere out of time.

Our strategy was to hike early and the less possible to keep our energy as much as we can. Man those two days walking were something. So no climbing to the TP2, rather we’ll hike behind reaching 2200m and hoping to catch a better weather system. 

I can tell you that, from the valley, the sea of cloud is not appealing at all. We’ve seen it for quite a while now… What is blue? How is yellow and heat?

But on we go through a beautiful beech forest. Some of those trees have hundreds of years, and it is quite a dream-like atmosphere with the fog adding to this effect.

And then, for a brief moment, suddenly a mountain appears. Not all at once, just reflections of the water dripping from its vertical faces but gigantic, overcoming us completely. And the we saw some blue (it exists!) and after a moment we were above the clouds and into another world. Mountains and sunshine and flying conditions!! Hell yeah.

Day 3 is always a turnpoint. It’s the hard one. And it ended with Édouard landing at 20:56pm right next to a sleeping spot. As a Frenchman once said : fumant!!

Hi

So it’s our last post here. After a last hike this morning to reach TP5 in the cloud, we decided to stop here ..

Due to some injuries on the right knee and the left ankle, it was too difficult to continue walking again all the day and probably tomorrow 

This edition of the Xpyr was really hard due to the forecast, we walked really a lot but however it was a really exciting race

Thanks for the support and see you soon 

Tanguy’s team