The bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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11 july
2005 -
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Trip-summary
Part of a 6-days solo-hike from Puigcerda
to Prats-de-Mollo along the borderline.
A long trip: from 09am (Puigcerda) to 19.30pm (camping-spot) without a break.
Weather: beautiful sunny weather, later chilly on the mountain ridge
Walking: 9½ hours.
Ascending: ± 1500 meters.
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I'm on my way, looking back at Puigcerda. |
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I follow the GR11-trail untill
Bm500 on Col Marcer.
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here I walk back to find bm499 to 496. Luckily there's a fence on the
border. It would have been difficult to find them with only my compass.
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Bm499
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Bm498
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Bm497
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Bm496
Back to bm500 to continue on the GR11.
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Bm501, then - along a winding path - 6 submarkers. |
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Bm501-I
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Bm501-II
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Bm501-III
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Bm501-IV
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Bm501-V
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Bm501-VI |
| I'm not sure but as far as I remember, this is a view back on the winding trail with the submarkers. |
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Bm502 on Coll de Maians.
Then climbing to bm503, a border-fence helps again to navigate.
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Bm503
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Bm504
I'm in doubt, to continue or not, it's already 4pm. But I go on and the last 3½ hours are pretty tough.
From here, it's a bare and broad mountain ridge,
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as this picture shows, with bm505 in the distance (the white speck).
Just follow the fence. |
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Bm505
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And now looking back on this plain of Pla de les Salines.
Leaving the fence and continuing on the country road to.
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Bm506
Enough for today, I descend to the valley |
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and pitch my tent at the foot of the Puigmal, close to a ski station.
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