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bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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20 march
2009 -
The hidden cave
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esfr-trip-track-20090320.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 5: a daytrip from Figueres to Cerbère - Port-bou. Main target:
to explore the access to bm602, the mysterious bordercross in a cave at sealevel.
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For explanation of
the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds:
see my cartography page
En route 4.40 hours (10.20-15.00)
According to my watch:
- elevation gain:380m
- elevation loss: 383m
- total elevation: 763 totaal
According to gps:
- 7,7km -> 1,6km/hour,
- while moving: 1.58 hour
- standing still: 2.41 hour
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According
to visugpx
- distance : 6.82 km
- cum. elevation gain : 379 m
- cum. elevation loss : 378 m
- total elevation: 757 m
- altitude maxi : 189 m
- altitude mini : 6 m
- altitude average : 101 m
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From the
trainstation of Cerbère, I walk to the viewingpoint of Cap Cerbère.
This picture: looking back at Cerbère.
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From Cap Cerbère
there's this view of the coast southwards.
Maps and Procès-Verbal make the borderline clear: from the hilltop it
descends along that giant vertical boulder to the sealine.
Move the mouse over the picture to see the borderline.
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There's a trail along the cliff leading to the hilltop and while climbing I study with my binoculars the coast.
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As I get closer, I see more and more clearly a cave in the north-side of that boulder. |
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This is a digital zoom-in of the cave. Only accessible by boat, I think. I see no possibilties to reach it by foot. So this is - I'm quite sure - the "Cova Foradado", the hidden cave.
In june 2010 Alain Laridon sent me
pictures of bm602, confirming that this is indeed the "Cova foradado". See:
esfr-html-markers-600-602.html
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On top of the hill, it's not too hard to descend to the top of that boulder ("falaise" in the Proocès-Verbal).
Descending further in the ne-corner of boulder and rockwall seems possible but for me - being alone - it got too steep.
Still: not impossible with some rockclimbing experience and/or -courgae. At the coastline - however - there are some seawaves to tackle to get to the entrance of the cave
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I climb back and visit:
bm601BIS
(N42 26 05.4 E3 10 17.9 H191m)
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The painted numbers are worn away. There are no other signs whatsoever. |
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Bm601
( N42 26 06.8 E3 10 14.8 H212m)
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Looking down at bm601bis (the tiny post to the left of the construction)
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Then to the borderpass (Coll dels Belitres) |
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with the inevitable monument on
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the refugees from the Spanish civil war in 1939.
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Another view of the pass. One wonders where the exact borderline is. Is it at the changing of the tarmac?
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Bm600
(N42 26 04.5 E3 09 30.9 H170m)
From bm600 there's a waymarked trail descending to Portbou.
A nice and relaxed walk. Satisfied with the discovery of the cave.
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