The
bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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8 may
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Round-trip with Jan-Willem from the Gîte d Etappe in
St-Étienne-de-Baïgorry
to 3 bordermarker-locations in the vicinity. We leave at 9.15am and are
back at approximately 17pm. Cloudy in the morning, some rain, at the
end blue sky and sunny.
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Trip 1: bm091-098
Easy drive to Col d Ispeguy
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For explanation of
the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds:
see my cartography page
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According
to visugpx
- distance : 4.53 km
- cum. elevation gain : 297 m
- cum. elevation loss : 302 m
- total elevation: 599
- altitude maxi : 908 m
- altitude mini : 672 m
- altitude average : 797 m
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Bm091 at Col d
Ispeguy
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Bm091
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Then climbing into
the forest in the approximate line of direction of the border which is
in line with the fence behind the restaurant besides bm091.
By the way: if you would follow the green-white trail (which
joins the border between bm94 and 95), you need to turn right
around this corner of the fence. But we climb right through the forest
which is no big deal.
Don’t follow the forest road you come across just as you have entered
the forest. It leads to the left along the hillside while you need to
climb in the direction of the hill-summit.
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Soon you will get
on a track and just outside the forest you'll see at your right hand
bm092 lying flat in the grass.
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A little bit closer
is a flat rock with bordercross 092.
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It’s
besides a hole in the ground which might be the original place of the
borderstone. Last year I saw that hole but didn’t notice the
cross& number.
I thought that there was no visible engraved number on the stone but
there is
one and now it is painted.
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Climbing further
and reaching that sort of saddle between two rocks. There is the
-broken in half - bm093 still in reconstructed position.
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Climbing further to
the highest point of the hill with bordercross bm094.
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Bm094 looking
backwards.
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Bm094 looking
forward
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Following the
borderridge - the green-white waymarked trail joins in from the right-
and right after entering the forest there is bm095 approximately 20
meters to the left at the end of a rocky ridge.
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Bm095
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The green-white
trail leads to the end of the forest on a sort of ridge where you look
down at valley below with a square stone enclosure.
But first along
the rocky ridge to the right to bordercross 096 (which is halfway to
bm097)
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Bm096 (bm097 is at
the hilltop in the background)
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Bm097.
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Bm097
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Descending to bm098
which is in fact non-existing: there are only pieces left and we can’t
find a piece with a number.
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There’s only a part
left with an engraved groove in it, that could have been a groove on
top indicating the borderline.
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We search around
the enclosure but find nothing relevant.
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Back again uphill.
At the edge of the forest we look down at the valley with bm098
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Move the mouse over the
picture to see where bm098 is located.
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Back to the Col d
Ispeguy,
taking between 095 and 094 the green-white trail which leads us on the
west hill-side to the back of that restaurant along the fence to the
large parking.
Could become part of the grpdesbf-route.
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We pass underneath
bm093.
Move the mouse
over the picture to see where bm093 is.
At the col we drink a coffee in a venta
and drive further.
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esfr-trip-track-20100508-trip2.kml
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Trip 2: bm123-124
Beyond Aldudes we take a narrow road leading to close to Col de
Belaun. The last part we have to walk.
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For explanation of
the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds:
see my cartography page
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According
to visugpx
- distance : 3.13 km
- cum. elevation gain : 226 m
- cum. elevation loss : 223 m
- total elevation: 449
- altitude maxi : 864 m
- altitude mini : 635 m
- altitude average : 740 m
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There's more to enjoy then bordermarkers only. For example these vultures resting on a rock.
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Our goal is clear:
bordercross 123 on top of the next hill after the col. I couldn’t find
that one last year although I explored that hilltop thoroughly. Robert
shows a picture of it on his site which make localisation easy.
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Bm123
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Also this engraved
number & cross are painted now and that makes life easy.
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Bm123
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Bm1123, looking down at Col de Belaun with that typical concrete cattle enclosure.
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And a nice view of the Col de Belaun.
Photo by Jan-Willem
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We walk further on the hillridge to see if that mysterious piece of stone with the
engraved and/or painted 123 is still in place on that rock like last year. But it
isn’t and on the pieces lying besides it there’s no engraving or
painting.
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Following the
hillridge uphill (which is further on approximately the edge of a
forest) we reach bm124 for some new pictures.
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Bm124
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Bm124
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Bm124
Back to our car, it
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Trip 3: bm137
Driving further on the D58 to the venta Baztan at the border. |
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From the parking a great view of the
Ichterbegui, the hill with bm141 on top. |
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Easy localisation
of bm137 just underneath the venta, thanks to pictures of Robert and
others. |
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Bm137, backside |
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Coffee and
bocadillo's in the venta.
I
spot again (like last year) a stone marker in the meadow. I suppose
it's a kind of bordermarker but it has no sign or number on it. |
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I suppose it's a kind of bordermarker but I didn't discover any sign of number on it last year. |
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Move the mouse over the picture to see the bordermarkers. |
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Back to the Gîte d'Etappe in St-Étienne-de-Baïgorry, |
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an early finish in
comparison with the previous days. |
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