Basque loop day four

The ridge line.

Towns are generally built near to a river. A river is always at the lowest point. Therefore whenever we start the day it’s with a climb. It was no different today.

After an hour going up we hit the ridge line that we would follow for most of the day, passing over gravel and rocky trails. Sometimes we were in open mountains, others passing through mature beech forests. At one corner we encountered a massive rocky escarpment.

There were single track sections near a river, and the day ended with a flying greenway section into Vitoria, the Basque capital.