GR. 10

This Sentier of great excursion (GR.) crosses the chain of the the Pyrenees of west in east.

It starts by briskly climbing the sides of the hills of the Basque Country since Hendaye at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean on the Côte Basque, then by a play of leapfrog of valley in valley, it joined the Mediterranean with Banyuls-sur-Mer on the Vermilion Côte.

Alternating the forest track, the road and the path of Mountain, it allows to the hiker the complete discovery of this solid mass.

For the complete course, a hiker will have to count good about fifty days, some small alternatives being able to lengthen or shorten the total distance. The GR. 10 opens a sight on the Cirque of Gavarnie and crosses many other picturesque sites of the Pyrenees.

History

Hendaye - Saint-Jean-Foot-of-Port

A first study of this section was carried out since 1965 by the office of Biarritz of Touring Club of France by Claude Breguet, with the assistance of Jean Gayon and Charles Etchepare. The beaconing was started with the participation of the Scouts de France and the Routiers of Bayonne. This Western portion of the GR. 10 did not give place to any publication and fell into the lapse of memory.

In 1968, Charles Etchepare Pierre Saint Martin's day with the ocean the team of Georges Veron guided who carried out his first integral crossing of the chain.

In spring 1972, these two men proposed to re-study the section Hendaye - Saint-Jean-Foot-of-Port and to supplement it until Larrau. At the end of 1972, they marked out in 11 days consecutive the 130 km of the course.

A first edition of the guide of the GR. 10 in Basque Country was published in 1973, and gave place thereafter to many republications, following the modifications of layouts and improvements made to move away from the tarred sectors, more and more invading.

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