The
bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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8 september
2010 -
Into the karst-crevasses
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esfr-trip-track-20100908.kml
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link to download gpx-version)
Summary: part of a 3-days exploring trip around Arette La Pierre
St-Martin.Third day: from bm262 to bm270 and a bit further, difficult
terrain.
Weather: overall cloudy and fresh, in the afternoon the clouds blown
away, giving more overview
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For explanation of
the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds:
see my cartography page
Start: 9.15, break: no, finish: 17.30, net walking time: 8.15
According to the gp-tripteller:
Distance: 17,1 km
Time moved: 5.57h
Time standing still: 2.35h
In total: 8.32h
Total ascent: 989m
Maximum height: 2145m
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According
to visugpx
- distance : 14.4 km
- cum. elevation gain : 640 m
- cum. elevation loss : 645 m
- total elevation: 1285 m
- altitude maxi : 2264 m
- altitude mini : 1753 m
- altitude average : 1972 m
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Another
daytrip from Arette La Pierre St. Martin. Target: bm270 and further. I
start near bm262.
But first I drive to
bm256, I had the impression that it had been changed since last
year when I passed it on the day before yesterday.
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But on second sight
I believe it
hasn’t.
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Parking my car
near bm262 en heading up the hill.
This is a bordermarker in his own right.
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Via bm263
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and bm264, both
easily found with my gps, |
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I
walk to Col d’Arlas, pick up
the yellow trail and continue to Col de Pescamou with bm265
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and further to Col
de Boticotch with bm266.
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Bm266
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Bm266
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The
yellow trail descends into the karst-crevasses and is - so I will learn
later - a more eastern approach to Pic
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Heading to Pic du
Soum Couy
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Looking ahead
to the trail at the slope of Pic du Soum Couy
I keep following that trail untill approximately the ridge of the hill
which is approximately the Col des Anies.
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But at that point,
I'm getting too far away from the bm270-waypoint.
I try a trail
(only cairns-waymarked) in the direction of bm270 |
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- while chamois
watch me -
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that turns out to
be
a shortcut to a more western ‘red’ trail.
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I follow that one
to the
south. It descends into the karst-crevasses but leave it when bm270
gets further away on my gps.
I climb
through and over the crevasses in the direction of the waypoint.
On a sort of plateau of
tilted rock-layers, I then notice a cairn. It seems to be the highest
point.
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And it is bm270 !
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Bm270
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Bm270
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Bm270
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Meanwhile, the
clouds are blown away, giving more overview and a better orientation.
I return to the red trail and continue that but it seems another trail
to Pic d’Anie.
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Back down the
trail and then trying to get to bm271. I
pass close to bm270 (highest point on this picture) but traversing the
crevassed plateau takes
far too long. I decide to stop and return.
In 2013 Jaques Koleck wrote me how he in 2009 went straight - from
bm270 - south in the direction of bm271bis: "it wasn't allways easy but
it was amusing".
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On my way back, I stumble upon a
cairns-waymarked trail that joins later the red trail, approximately
at this point.
I believe you're looking in SW-direction on this picture.
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So: at entering that crevassed plateau from the north, there’s a
bifurcation: the red
trail bends to the left and descends into the crevasses, the
cairns-trail goes to the south-west.
No idea where it leads to but it’s more
or less in the direction of bm271.
I'm not sure but I believe that this metal pole is at the bifurcation.
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I return on the red
trail and see on the hillridge in the distance
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a bordermarker, it
must be bm269
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Further back on the red trail, red changes in fluorescent orange untill
the point where the yellow and red/orange trail parted earlier.
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And that's here.
There’s a metal
pole with broken-off signs. So: the yellow trail bends at this point to
the
left and descends in the crevasses while the orange/red trail goes
straight on. The latter is the better one (coming from Col de
Pescamou) because it stays close to the bordermarkers.
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Further on, looking
back in southern direction to that hill-ridge with bm267
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Walking back on the orange or sometimes violet trail, I pass once again
Col d'Arlas.
There it strikes me that there's a source, the only one
I've seen so far in this area. Water is scarce here, disappearing
easily in the karst bottom.
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Continuing
the trail - now with yellow waymarks, if I remember
well - it
brings me to near bm262, along that empty house or cabin.
This view is interesting.
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for it gives a
sort of bird's eye view of where bm261 is and how to approach it, as I found out yesterday.
Move the mouse over the
picture to see where.
For a third night, I sleep in Refuge Jeandell. Every night they cook
spaghetti. Pouring rain at night and the next morning. Too worse to
continue in this area. So I return to Lourdes the next morning.
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