The bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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- 12 april 2009 -
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Solotrip starting &  ending at Bidarray trainstation. Jan-Willem stayed in Bayonne.

In short: searching again for bm087 (in vain), finding bm088 , reconnaissance of the  route from bm087 to the GR10-trail.
For explanation of the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds:
see my cartography page

Duration: ± 9.15-1645, ± 7.30 hours
Elevation (watch): 1225m up, 1244m down, 2469m in total

According to visugpx
- distance : 14.88 km
- cum. elevation gain : 972 m
- cum. elevation loss : 972 m
- total elevation:  1944

- altitude maxi : 655 m
- altitude mini : 81 m
- altitude average : 335 m
I followed the GR10-trail and the tarmac-road south of the Bastan-river and finally the rural road to the field with

bm086 (a remake of yesterday)
Bm086
From bm086 I walk (using gps and compass) the 318 meters (procès-verbal) to where bm087 should be.
And that's approximately where 3 trees are standing  just  north of the
barn. But no trace of bm087.

According to the maps the  bend in the  borderline  should be  just south of the barn, on the north side of the rural road to be precise. See  the map below. But also there: no trace of  a bordermarker.

On the picture we see the barn from north with one of the 3 trees in front of it.
Map copied from the  Sitna (Navarra) mapsite

Showing the bend in the border where bordermarker 087 should be.
I descend to the bottom of the valley  and look  for bm088. But  I realize that I  should go further.

I climb on a path (on Spanish soil) uphill.

Picture: looking back , in the distance we see the green meadow with the barn where bm087 should have been.

Move the cursor over the picture to see the approximate borderline.
I climb untill I come across  a trail coming from left from the barn (see picture)

Following that trail to the right I reach a stone-walled field (a 'borde'?).
On the west-side of the stone-walled field I'm searching for a long time. The 'procès-verbal' mentions a  "rocher voisin", a neighbouring rock and that's where I find the bordercross!

Bm088
Bm088 with a little help of chalk
And again
And again, looking into Spain.
And an overview of the situation.

Move the cursor over the picture to see where bm088 is.
I return to the barn following the just discovered trail from the walled field to the barn.
Mostly a clear trail,  sometimes vague.

Made while approaching  the barn, this picture allows a good comparison with the map below.

Move the cursor over the picture to see the approximate borderline.
And once again the map taken from the  Sitna (Navarra) mapsite

Showing the bend in the border where bordermarker 087 should be.

From the barn (after a last search for bm088), I climb the zigzag rural road, continuing  on a yellow waymarked path to the GR10-trail to descend to Bidarray.
But - before I leave - this picture  taken from the barn in the direction of bm089.

Move the cursor over the picture to see the approximate borderline. 

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And just for my own record: our hotel in Bidarray 2 nights earlier.
And our hotel in Bayonne.
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