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Today I'm with a friend from Fene
I'm Xesús Oca and I'm an amateur mountaineer
Amateur? Well, I think you are kind of professional rather than an amateur mountaineer
When did you start?
In 1992. Each summer I come to the Road to Santiago
If you go to the mountain each holiday, be it in summer, Easter week or long weekends
you can walk more than fifty days per year.
You come each time you have holidays?
Not always. Some years I walk 500 kilometers and other years 1500 - not only in the road to Santiago
Practically they are all in the mountain. I'm a mountaineer since 1977. The important thing is that I like it
I have made the official French Road and all its alternative routes
The same with the Aragonés Road… you know it gets divided at some points… I have made all of them
I have also made all the alternative routes to the North Road:
the ancient way and all the others, which came from Oviedo
And I have also made all the junctions between them
And now in September I want to finish the Road from León to Oviedo going through the Picos de Europa mountains…
Do you always walk alone?
It is difficult to match up dates with many people…
and you know that if you go by your own usually you walk with other people which walk alone
It is difficult to go with a group of three or four people you met in the way and that know very well each other.
I also want to walk from Irún to Burgos. I've never walked the stage of Tolosa
And then it will just remain one Road to be walked, the one which departs from Madrid.
Now we are going to start… don't you complain!