180km across Corsica on the GR20 Hiking Trail 

Thanks Dixie!

I’m glad to hear that you enjoyed the nature details :) Thanks for your feedback!

That’s so great to hear. Enjoy your adventure!

Hey Lucy, thanks for the kind comment and feedback! I’m happy you enjoyed the video and the editing. I actually made the maps from scratch, using a simple painting tool in a photo editing software. I used a GR20 map from the internet as a template in a layer which I later removed. For each day on the trail, I painted the distance that I hiked on that day in the map. In the end I exported the map as a PNG file, so that you can still see the video through the map. I have never properly learned how to do this kind of stuff, so there’s probably better ways to do it, but I was happy with the result :) I hope you can make it to Corsica this year for the GR20! It can look quite different there in October compared to when I did the trail in early September. You could check out the RU-vid video from my friend Phil Hamann (it’s also his name on RU-vid) who did the GR20 in the middle of last October.

@@butwhatsoutthere Thank you so much for your reply. It looks great(the maps), sounds like lots effort to do. But I like enjoying this kind of editing and now I even more appreciate your video. Thank you for your tip I will have look on your friends video. All best Lucy

@@butwhatsoutthere just looked for your friends video and it was actually first video i watched on gr20 and when i seen he did it october I started thinking maybe i can make it this october 😄

Thank you! You don’t necessarily have to bring a gas can, or just a small one to be safe. All the refuges have gas stoves where you can cook, and next to these stoves a lot of people leave their own gas cans for others to take. So I was able to cook my own food every night without having to bring my own gas. Wish you all the best for your hike!

Hey, I started the trail on the 29th of August and finished 15 days later in September. I was quite lucky with the weather, the sun was shining every day. But precisely on the days before I started the trail and after I finished it, there were massive thunderstorms with lots of rain. The sunny weather also helped me keep my electronics charged, because during the whole trip I charged all my devices with a portable solar panel from Anker. Worked really well. At the refuges there are also some electricity outlets, but often there’s not enough of them for all the hikers. Cool that you’re also planning on doing the trek! I think the weather in June should be great. Good luck with that!

You can buy food items and dinner at the refuges, but I avoided doing this as it is extremely expensive. So I carried almost all my food for the first section. In Castel de Vergio is a small store where I stocked up a bit. In Vizzavona, which is roughly the halfway point of the hike, I took a train to Corte where I went to a big supermarket and bought all the food that I needed for the second half of the trail. You can also shop food in Vizzavona itself at a campground, but again, quite expensive. here and there I bought some snacks or drinks at the refuges. Sometimes there are Bergeries (mountain farm huts) along the way, but very few actually have food. I usually ate oatmeal for breakfast, dried bread with peanut butter or soups for lunch and for dinner I usually had couscous with lentils. Hope this helps :)

Yes I did bring my Katadyn befree filter which I used every now and then to filter river water in the valleys. But I wouldn’t say that it’s necessary to bring one. On most days you pass several clean water sources on the GR20, and of course the Refuges have clean water. But you always have to check the map for water sources before you start hiking. Often you have to hike for many hours without water sources, so it’s always smart to fill up at least 2L when you pass a source