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ESSENTIAL MATERIAL

Camí de Ronda® is an outdoor route. Even if it is not a high mountain track, and thus there’s no need to invest much in technic material, you have to consider bringing a minimum material to complete it successfully.

We advise you to bring:

• Technic shoes for light trekking.
• Breathable socks.
• Long or short trousers for sports.
• Technic breathable shirt.
• Polar lining (depending on the season).
• Windscreen jacket – waterproof.
• Small backpack of at least 20L capacity.
• Rubber forefoot trekking sticks.
• Sunglasses.
• Mini first-aid kit.
• Water bottle.
• Food for the day.
• Cap.
• Sunscreen lotion.
• Mobile pone with extra battery.
• Documentation and some cash.
• GPS with Camí de Ronda® track
• Camí de Ronda® official map.
• Absorbing microfiber towel.
• Swimsuit.

Print this list and tic kit as you are packing your backpack. (download PDF)

GPS AND OFFICIAL TRACK OF CAMÍ DE RONDA®

Camí de Ronda® has proper signs all along, but there are some stages that are completely virgin, with no signs. It is essential to have a last generation GPS with the most updated version of the oficial Camí de Ronda® track.

Organizers update the official track every 3 months, or each time that we are informed of any incidence on the route. If you have your own GPS we can send you the updated track via email. If you do not, we provide you a GPS with the track installed and fully updated.

To learn more, read the SERVICES section 

MEDICAL AND ACCIDENTS COVERAGE

To complete Camí de Ronda® you need to hold an insurance that covers hiking, trekking, crossing and similar activities. Plus, if you are not a Spanish resident, we advise you to check before your departure that your country of origin has agreements with the Spanish public system. Should you hold a private medical insurance, check the coverage in advance, making sure it covers Spain.

We recommend that you check the validity of your insurance before experiencing Camí de Ronda® and make sure it covers the activity and the rescue in the event of accident. If you do not have it, we can offer you one.

To learn more, read the SERVICES section 

PLAN YOUR TRANSFERS

We recommend that you plan your logistics from your arrival (airport, train station) to the point of start of Camí de Ronda® (Girona, Sant Feliu de Guíxols or Palamós) and, also, the return to the start of the route once you have completed it.

Camí de Ronda® organizers can bring at your diposal the passenger transfers you need.

To learn more, read the SERVICIES section

SWINSUIT AND TOWEL

Along the track, we will pass through different beaches, coves and small coves that invite you to stop by and take a bath. We recommend you to bring suitable and light clothes for a bath that do not occupy much.

This is why we recommend to bring a towel which is ultra-absorbing and fast-drying.

TREKKING STICKS with RUBBER FOREFOOT

Even though they are not strictly necessary, we advise you to walk with one or two trekking sticks. When we hike, this sort of sticks bring us a number of benefits, since they allow a perfect weight balance, allowing us to follow a regular pace easierly, help us overcome little spots that require more technical abilities and help us redistribute the muscle overload to other parts of the body. With the trekking sticks, the strength we make with the calves and quadriceps goes to the muscles of arms and pectorals.

If you use these sticks, we recommend you to protect them with rubber forefoot, since they absorb hits and also prevent ground erosion in frequented areas.

BRING THE SUITABLE SHOES

We recommend suitable shoes for light trekking, which is confortable, with adherent outsole and that holds your ankle tight. You do not need to wear high mountain boots and nor it is advisable to wear sports shoes since they usually do not guarantee the support and adherence required in certain grounds.

We advise to wear breathable socks that help your feet sweat normally in order to avoid sore feet. Plus, we have to avoid new shoes or not fitting well. We also recommend to bring sticking plasters in your backpack to treat sore feet should they occur.

STAY HYDRATATED

It is important to stay hydratated when you hike. Camí de Ronda® organizers advise you to drink water often and, in big rests, a good beer will help us recompose nutrients and vitamine B that our body has lost during exercise. Do not forget that:

• The alcohol content of beer is low, between 4% and 6,5% of its volume.
• Contains 4% of carbohydrates.
• The beer has several minerals such as potassium, sodium, magnesium, phosphorus and calcium.
• The Spanish Federation of Sports Medicine states that the ideal drink to rehydratate should have between 6% and 8% of carbohydrates, a mild sodium content and a certain amount of potassium. The composition of beer quite matches these requirements. 

RESPECT NATURAL SPACES

Camí de Ronda® is a crossing that has the privilege of crossing some of the most beautiful protected natural spaces in the Costa Brava, which are subject to a high human pressure in all senses. That is why we ask our users, as Camí de Ronda® organizers, to take the beauty of its scenery into account and, plus, they help us preserve it in the same conditions you found it. The mission of preserving our present falls on all our shoulders so that future generations have the pleasure to enjoy the same natural spaces as the previous ones.

Some of the natural spaces crossed by Camí de Ronda® are the PEIN Castell – Cap Roig, PEIN Muntanyes de Begur, PEIN Massís de les Cadiretes and PEIN les Gavarres.