The
bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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- 24 august
2011 -
No vertigo
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esfr-trip-track-20110824.kml
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Summary:
part of a 3-weeks trip to the Pyrénées to 'do' the ± 60
remaining bordermarkers. All done as daytrips from campings.
Day 10: an afternoon trip doing bm280 & 281.
Weather: all day cloudy, manifesting as fog at this height
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For
explanation of
the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds:
see my cartography page
En route (±): 12 - 17.30 (5.30h)
According to the gps-tripteller:
Distance: 14,9 km
Cum. elevation gain : 773m
Total elevation: 1546m
Maximum height: 1843m
Time: 5.16h
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According
to visugpx
- distance : 13,1km
- cum. elevation gain : 790m
- cum. elevation loss : 790m
- total elevation: 1580m
- altitude maxi : 1904m
- altitude mini : 1284m
- altitude average : 1655m
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From the parking of Forges d’Abel climbing to the pass of Escalé d’Aigue
Torte.
This picture: the final part of the climb.
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I would expect the cross bm280 to be on the pass itself but it’s
on the edge of a rock at the N, overlooking the pass. The engraver
apparently didn’t suffer from vertigo.
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Bm280, overlooking the pass
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Bm280
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Then on the Spanish side over the grass heading SW along the hill slopes,
crossing a few times a stream, following cattle-tracks as it suits.
Later on you will enter foothills and soon join the GR11-trail (be
attentive not to miss it). Continue SE on the GR11.
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The GR10 will bring you to the Lac d’Estaens, a large lake.
It takes quite
some time to go along/above it untill you descend to the SE-corner of
the lake.
I missed a bend of the GR11 and descended by misstake to the NW corner of the lake.
I returned to the GR11 but much later I wondered if my misstake might be a more direct route to bm281.
See next picture.
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The yellow line is the suggested shortcut.
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So back to the GR11. On my way, I spot green/yellow waymarks which I saw two days earlier near Col de Somport, here together with the GR11-waymarks.
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At the SE-corner of the lake, I leave the GR11 and go N along
the lake.
At its most nothern point, the Port de Benere Vannu
(visible on this picture) is just a small climb.
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From the Port de Benere Vannu, this panorama-view of the lake. |
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Bm281
Again the cross is not on the pass itself but on a outcrop
sticking out of the ridge. In this case: ± 40m to the NE.
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Bm281
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Bm281.
The fog is now permanent and I decide to descend, back to my car.
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