About three miles out of Pamplona, I found this haystack. Bales stacked 20 feet high.

The farmland beyond Pamplona featured peas, wheat, and fields of mustard.

Looking back down the hill toward Pamplona.

Hauling my ass over the peak of Alto de Perdón (Mount of Forgiveness). The famous sculpture shows pilgrims crossing the last big ridge of the Pyrenees foothills.

So far, every steep climb has been rewarded by a treacherous descent. This one offered several hundred meters of grapefruit-sized stones on a bed of slick wet clay mud.

More wheat.

Detail of pilasters at the cathedral in Puente la Reina.