The bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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- 28 august
2007 - The longest day
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Trip-summary.
Kml: esfr-trip-track-20070828.kml (click to open in Google Earth or copy link to Google Maps)
Part of two trips in the Cerdagne, starting from Enveitg. Day 2: from Enveitg to Refugio de Manyol, finding bm434-429
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En route: ± 12.15 hours
Time walked: ± 11½ hours
According to my watch:
cum. positive elevation: 1805m
cum. negative elevation: 1006m
total elevation: 2811m
max. altitude: 2671m
min. altitude: 1225m
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According to gpx-view: Distance : 20.182 km Altitudes : Maxi 2738 m Mini 1237 m Denivellation: +1448 m -711 m
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I left the camping in Entveig at 7am, needing 3 hours to reach the dirtroad close to bm438.
Today I took mountain roads on the French side to climb the mountain. I remember spotting a fox with two cubs.
After some descending to collect water at a stream, I find my way through the
broom on cattle-tracks to the spot where bm437I must be, according to my
pda/gps.
But I can't find it despite an intensive search.
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Then - more difficult - through the broom to the spot of bm437. But I can't find that one either.
This picture: the approximate place.
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Struggling on through the broom to a more open slope where bm436 must be. But same story: unfindable. |
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A view back on the valley where I started this morning.
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I also can't find bm435, despite a clear description and gps-location.
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But two years later I discover on the above picture a cross! |
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And when comparing it with the pictures on this webpage of Alain Laridon, I come to the conclusion that it must be bm435.
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I keep climbing on the ridge. This picture: looking back.
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It's not difficult to spot bm434 on Pic de la Tos.
Coordinates N42 29 11.9 E1 49 24.5 H2384m
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Then to bm433, tilted but well visible from distance.
Coordinates: N42 29 04.4 E1 49 10.0 H2384m
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| Bm432, the highest point of a bunch of rocks (Roc Colon).
Coordinates:
N42 28 59.4 E1 49 00.2 H2412
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| Bm432
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| The Roc Colon (with bm432) from distance.
At the next angle of the borderline, there should be an unnumbered cross. But I can't find it but didn't really search.
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| Bm431, easy to find
Coordinates:
N42 29 25.4 E1 48 15.4 H2572m
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| Well, let's say: Mementi Mori
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is an interesting zoom-in: we see an arrow-shape from which the
vertical line is the forest-corridor between bm443 and bm444.
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| Bm430 at the highest point of the pic of Pedros de la Tosa.
Coordinates
N42 29 07.7 E1 47 30.9 H2700m
On my pda/gps this angle in the borderline is located ± 40m to the NW
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| The Pedros de la Tosa from distance.
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| Bm429 near Font Bovedor, at the confluence of two streams.
Coordinates:
N42 29 10.2 E1 46 40.6 H2690m
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could bivouac here (it's flat, there's water) but that could be
rough in bad weather on this 2700m-high plateau..
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| The pillar behind the bordercross is probably a Comarco-bm, marking the Spanish community-borders.
My pda/gps locates bm429 about 100m to the NE.
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| It takes a while to find the cairns marking the trail from Puig Pedros to Refugio de Manyol, down in the valley. |
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descent took me ± 1½ hours. Near the Refugio there's this camping area
with access to streaming water at the stone bridge, just beyond the
Refugio.
The next day - in very windy weather -I will return to Latour-de-Carol / Puigcerda on the GR11-trail. The end of this holiday.
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