I will be going on a 3 to 4 week trek through Central Italy following St. Francis path. I will be following the path going northwards starting in Rome.
Any tips?
I will be going on a 3 to 4 week trek through Central Italy following St. Francis path. I will be following the path going northwards starting in Rome.
Any tips?
Seems like it will be faster by car
Italy is great by car going on smaller roads, strada statale, but I want to walk the country side and enjoy the hiking bit. There's less people there than in Camino de Santiago too.
I'm planning on carrying around 5 liters of water. One 0.75 aluminium drinking bottle and two 1.5 litre plastic bottles. Should I upgrade to 2l instead? I'm around 183 and weight more or less 95 kilograms.
Are you a local? How do people tolerate wild camping around the path? I have always stealth camped and probably will not make myself available to anyone I do not want to, but I wonder if I should just ask some people. My Italian is not great, but it is enough to understand a good amount and to say enough to be understood.
My plan was to walk until Assisi and then possibly until Firenze if I have the time. I have some stuff starting in September, I am at loss for every week extra I spend walking. So I am very careful about detours. But if I finish my walk in Assisi, I will definitely visit Perugia.
5L is plenty, you want to hydrate but you don't want to carry so much weight on your back that makes your hike uncomfortable.
Sadly my pack weights a lot more than I'd like it to weight, and with water and food weight it will be even more.
Pic related.
>+ camera and some odd bits and pieces + food and water
>+ camera
kys """influencer"""
dude people still take photos to keep for themselves
fricking zoomers
>Are you a local? How do people tolerate wild camping around the path?
not local but afaik wild camping is illegal basically everywhere in Italy
if they'll give you shit about it though is different
It is, but at the same time I have slept in Venice and in very central places. Very easy to hide in plain sight.
>if they'll give you shit about it though is different
Rule of thumb, they only punish you if you are a law abiding Italian. If you are a regular citizen with papers in order and a clean record and you pay your taxes, you will get the maximum punishment possible. On the other hand if you are an illegal immigrant from Africa with no papers and you don't speak a word of the language you are free to do whatever you want. The key is being thorough with breaking the law.
Keep yourself hydrated at all ti. Happy trails.
Assisi is on the main path obviously but do visit Perugia please
beware that italy is NOT lgbtqi2+ friendly
we too got pozzed, give it 2-3 years and we'll have caught up to the US
Do you realize that in September we will have a FAR RIGHT government? here the cities, maybe, live in the 21st century.. but the masses of the countryside, they still live in the middle ages
>we will have a FAR RIGHT government
there's no left and right anywhere in the world. in the end the right are just the usual grifters ingratiating themselves with the demographic because as long as we're in the EU we have to follow EU directives
Quit it with this shit, this is PrepHole.
yeah sorry
to stay on topic there's a Vagrant Holiday episode where he's stealth camping in Italy
beware the bears and wolves anon
See you on the trail. I'll be on my Frera Mountain bike
What color? I'm going next Thursday.
I'm taking photos for myself with an old Canon camera from 2004. Quit being gay.
Fricked up big time
>over packed
>had a poor backpack with a frame that makes my back sweat constantly
>didn't plan the stays at all, went without a credential
>didn't account for the fact that lots of tje path is road walking, had mountain trekking shoes that gave me blisters
tl;dr prepare better than me lads
I'll definitely try again, but it's so easy to frick up long distance walking, I'm almost ashamed how poorfly I executed it at all. I had done long distances before, on and off between places, also wild camping, but I was somehow better prepared then without a clue than now when I should know better. Now both of my feet are covered in blisters, tarmac walking is brutal with 22kg backpack.
ouch anon that sounds bad
At least I will be able to go to Val Grande for a week or two to do some trails there. Very disappointed as I won't have the time to do this again for some time. At the same time I was calculating on the train that I could have shaved off at least 5kg in weight by removing clutter and having smarter choices. I went full moron for some reason. But in a way I am glad it didn't work out because it is hot as balls and no matter how light my pack would be I'd still sweat like a pig and it's not fun walking for 3 or 4 days without a shower in 30c heat.
I can only wish better luck (and more brains) to anyone trying to do the same.