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bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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11 july
2010 -
Sneaking into gardens
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esfr-trip-track-20100711.kml
(click to open in Google
Earth or copy link to Google Maps;
click right on this
link to download gpx-version)
A
long daytrip from Puigcerda with the main target of finding the Llvian
bm's 24,26 & 27 which where not found on my trip on 28
sept 2005. But Martial Garcia did find them in 2009 and his
information is very helpful.
Weather: very warm and sunny untill halfway the afternoon.
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For explanation of
the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds:
see my cartography page
According to the gps-tripteller:
- 32,4km
- time moved 6.57
- time standing still 3.47
- in total ± 10.45 including breaks
- total ascent: 505meters
- maximum height: 1582m
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According
to visugpx
- distance : 30.5 km
- cum. elevation gain : 530 m
- cum. elevation loss : 526 m
- total elevation: 1056
- altitude maxi : 1575 m
- altitude mini : 1142 m
- altitude average : 1329 m
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Early
start (6.45am) in Puigcerda. Before crossing the border-bridge to
Bourg-Madame, I enter the garden (tackling the wall along the river) of
that large - probably inhabited - house (though I notice a car besides
it)
I found bm481es there on
10
july 2005 and I want another picture and a gps-waypoint.
It's difficult to find it again but the bm is still there, covered in a
bush and by moss, standing just besides the wall.
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Bm481es
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I sneak out of the
garden and continue: While crossing the bridge, I make pictures of the
bm's 480 on the bridge
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Bm480north
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Bm480south
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Walking
via Onzès, Lliva-town and Cereja to LL25..
It's nice & quiet on this beautiful sunday morning.
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Reaching LL25 takes
a detour through the forest.
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Then
further to the camping "La Griollo". This is a sign of a trail
"discovering an enclave" I saw on the camping. No idea of its course or
extent but intriguing.
Anyway: via country roads to the sewer-cleaning-facility near
LL24.
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Abundant weed and a
swollen stream
make getting to the conjuction of the two streams - just beyond the
installation - somewhat difficult.
But findig LL24 is easy: its's ± 20
meters beyond the conjunction at the right bank of the stream at the
top of a boulder.
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LL24 with the help
of chalk.
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LL24
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LL24
Then
I climb along the small stream back to the camping-area. By the way:
climbing directly from LL24 to LL25 can be done. I remember doing that
on 28 sept 2005.
A beer at the camping-bar
and a nice chat with the dutch landlady about the self-centeredness of
both French and Spanish communities in this borderregion.
There's hardly any exchange.
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Further via the
tarmac road - with Martial's information - to LL26 which is easily
found thanks to that information..
It's
along the side of a meadow surrounded by an iron cable. The meadow is -
say - 100 meters from the tarmac road. The bm is along the side
parallel to the road
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LL26
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LL26
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The next one - LL27
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difficult to find in a bunch of boulders, all covered with moss and
hidden by bush. Martial's direction of a luggage rack thrown against
it, is indispensable..
These boulders are situated next to the road and the one with the bm
more close to it..
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The cross itself is
on on top of the boulder and not obvious to notice from the ground.
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The boulder with
LL26 on top.
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And now chalked.
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Further to LL28 for
a remake-picture and waypointing.
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And finally to LL29
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to photograph the
cross on top of this boulder, as Martial found out.
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LL29
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LL29
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I return via Ceraja
to Llivia-town and visit for a moment of
memento-mori this cemetery.
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On my way to
Puigcerda, I
somehow miss the country road to Onzès and so I pass LL01 on
the
main road between Llivia-town and Puigcerda.
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Backside of LL01
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As I reach
the viaduct/bridge over the Rahur, a thunderstorm starts.
I take shelter underneath the viaduct.
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After the storm, I
cross the bridge and
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make pictures of
the special (unnumbered) bordermarkers on it
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And take from the
bridge a picture of the old bridge over the Rahur which is the border.
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and subsequently
recross the Rahur on that old bridge with the bm's 477.
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Bm477south
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Bm477north
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Via the country
road to Bourg-Madame, bm479fr is still there behind the
fence of the garden of a youth holiday center. I take my chance - it's
rainy, everyone is inside -to sneak on the premises and make close
pictures and waypoints.
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Bm479fr
In Bourg-Madame sheltering again for a second wave of rain &
thunder and then back to Puigcerda.
At
night I watch together with the hotel-owner's family the world champion
soccer final between Spain and Holland, lost by my fellow countrymen.... |
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