The bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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- tuesday 17 march
2009 - Bm536 excavated
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esfr-trip-track-20090317.kml (click to open in Google Earth or copy link to Google Maps; click right on this link to download gpx-version)
Part of a 5-days trip to the eastern Pyrenees.
Day 2: main
target: returning to the location of bm536 and find it.
Then to Coustouges for my appointment with Jean Iglesias the next
day.
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For explanation of the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds: see my cartography page
En route from 10.00 to 16.30, walking 5 ¾ hours.
According to my watch: Elevation gain: 872m Elevation loss: 464m Total elevation: 1336m
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| According to visugpx - distance : 8.84 km - cum. elevation gain : 688 m - cum. elevation loss : 283 m - total elevation: 971 m
- altitude maxi : 823 m - altitude mini : 391 m - altitude average : 586 m |
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Looking around in this intriguing chapel Saint Bartomeu. Little prayers spread on the altar.
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From
the chapel down to the road and a bit further to the west, descending
along a yellow waymarked trail to the river Muga which is dry at that
point.
First I try to follow the riverbed upstream. But then I
decide it's better to take the trail along the river which Jan-Willem
and I followed in 2007.
That trail reaches - after some climbing
and descending - the edge of the riverbed again. I continue in
the riverbed itself as long as it's possible. A bit before
continuation is no longer possible, I see a trail starting at the
east-side of the riverbed. Afterwards I realize that this must be the continuation of the earlier trail.
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That trail climbs, becomes unclear but brings me finally to bm538! I remember from the Procès-Verbal something of a trail passing along bm538 in the direction of the Muga.
From 538 I follow our route from 6 april 2008 , to the dry stream, bm537 and - on this picture - bm536.
Bm536 is easy to find because of the white arrows pointing at it and because it was half uncovered.
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Close-up |
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After some excavating
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And after chalking |
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I return on the same route (the trails seeeming more overgrown then last year) and climb further to bm539.
Then I realize that I forgot to photograph bm537 and bm538. I return.
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Bm538 |
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Bm537
I try to return to bm538 more directly with help of the gps. I succeed but first end up on the Spanish side, beneath bm538.
The route via the dry stream is easier to orientate.
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Looking down into Spain, the chapel visible in the deep.
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| Bm540 |
| Bm541
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| In the concrete base, 1960 is engraved, apparently the year of a reconstruction.
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| Bm541, close-up
Taking a break.
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| And continuing to Can d'Amunt in ¾ hours. |
| And to Coustouges in ½ hours.
There's a monument remembering the influx of Spanish refugees in 1939. |
| along the main road.
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| And I pitch my tent behind the cemetary of Coustouges, a quiet place.
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