Earth Day 2017
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| Today I joined a group of supporters of the new coast to coast trail called El Camino de Costa Rica Hiking an 11 km section, with 8 km uphill! Very difficult. |
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| One of many vistas along the trail El Camino de Costa Rica |
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| It was all on roads, mostly gravel El Camino de Costa Rica |
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| One of the many very steep uphill climbs (2 dropped out early) El Camino de Costa Rica |
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| We cossed and followed several streams El Camino de Costa Rica |
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| Passed a continous flow of small, poor farm houses El Camino de Costa Rica |
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| Had breakfast in a little rural Soda El Camino de Costa Rica |
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| And our after-hike lunch at a rural trout farm restaurant El Camino de Costa Rica |
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| Enough participated to fill a tourist bus! El Camino de Costa Rica |
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| One more vista, this near end of the hike El Camino de Costa Rica |
We did just one small section of a 263 or so km trail coast to coast and as the project proposes, walked through small farms in rural Costa Rica, this one in the Talamanca Mountains west of Cartago, but going through no town. See the video introducing the trail which uses some of my bird photos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7euE5oQPC8
And if you would like to donate to the development of this trail through “crowd sourcing,” go to the website: https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/el-camino-de-costa-rica–3#/
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Great job Charlie, you made it, nice shots.
Mark Viergutz
Mark, when you move here you can get on their mail list and try to make some of the hike the trail supporters make, usually once a month and mostly one day hikes. Though a few have done multiple day hikes and even the whole trail in 15 days!