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saturday 15 april
2023 -
Trekking bm559-600 -> day 2: 583-596
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Summary:
part of a series of 5 daytrips and one 3-days backpacking trip in april
2023.
This is day 5 and the second day of the 3-days hike rom bm559 to 600.
Most of these markers I have done at least 10 years ago and that is the
reason to do them again.
Today: proceeding from bm583 to bm596 along the borderridge, food and water limited, sources are dry.
Weather: sunny, very strong wind.
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According to Garmin
Basecamp (uncorrected track with elevation added by Gpsvisualizer.com):
Distance: 23,6 km
Max-height: 1139m
Min-height: 355m
Elevation: +1112m -1593m
Total elevation: 2705m
Start 8:33 Finish 19:02
Total time: 10:29
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 | Back
at the borderridge after my night of free camping. In the distance Puig
Neulós with its antenna. It's been a cold start but in the sun I warm
up quickly.
But: in the middle of the night, I discovered that some animal had
drawn my foodsupply from under the tent and eaten half of it. So I have
to ration my food-intake. Luckily the Font de Tanyareda has abundantly
running water.
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 | Starting with bm583.
It's a glorious day and I sing happily and loudly the sad song "Quand le soleil dit bonjour aux montagnes".
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 | Bm583
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 | Bm583
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 | Bm583
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 | Passing the cabane de Tanyareda
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 | with its minimal furniture.
Luckily I find some pasta on a shelf to replenish my supplies.
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 | Easily walking through a beech forest
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 | and passing this fence
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 | to get to bm584.
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 | Bm584
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 | Bm584
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 | Again in open terrain where the wind is gaining more and more force.
Bm585 is visible at the other side of the fence.
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 | Bm485
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 | Bm485
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 | Bm485
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 | A view into France.
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 | Then bm586.
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 | Bm586
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 | Bm586
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 | Then the trail goes in a half circle unterneath Puig de Pradets through a nice beech forest.
On the Osmand-map on my smartphone I see in the forest a sort of shelter and that is this one.
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 | Getting back in open terrain and on the ridge
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 | on a well trail, still the GR10,
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 | and with a view to the French coast.
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 | I check the Font de la Maçana
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 | but it is dry.
I now realize that also the next sources might be dry so I have to ration my water-intake also.
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 | Bm587 in view.
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 | Bm587
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 | Bm587
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 | The next one is bm588.
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 | Bm588
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 | Bm588
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 | Proceeding, the wind is very, very strong now.
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 | Bm589
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 | Bm589
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 | Bm589
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 | Bm589 from a distance.
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 | Still on the GR10-trail.
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 | A view to the harbour of Port Bou in Spain.
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 | Once having arrived at a sort of col S of Puig de Sallfort, the trail descends and bends to the S.
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 | Further on, there is this waysign to a source, the source François Grand.
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 | But that one is also dry.
Back to the main trail.
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 | Then there is this diversion. The trail going down is the GR10.
But I have to continue S.
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 | The trail descends and I reach bm590.
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 | Bm590
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 | Bm590
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 | Then a long descent to Coll de Banyuls.
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 | After the Coll I will continue S to the hilltop in the background.
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 | A nice cabin at Coll de Banyuls where I take a coffee-break, sheltered for the wind.
But no watersources around.
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Coll is since a few years blocked by the authorities to prevent
smuggling and human trafficking. much to the dismay of the local people.
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 | Bm591: cross and pillar.
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 | Bm591
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 | Bm591
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 | Not far away is bm592.
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 | Bm592
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 | Bm592
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 | Bm592, looking back.
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 | A diversion, I have to go left.
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 | And the climbing starts, note the yellow arrow.
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 | Another diversion.
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 | Both tracks lead apparently to Coll del Torn where bm592 is.
I take the route over the Puig de la Calma.
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 | A view of the borderridge yet to come.
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 | Arriving at Coll del Torn
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 | with bm593.
Strong wind with strong gusts makes walking tiring.
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 | Bm593
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 | Bm593, backside of it.
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 | Further along the ridge bm594.
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 | Bm594
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 | Bm594
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 | This is approximately the spot where the borderridge turns to the E.
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 | Bm595: cross and pillar.
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 | Bm595
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 | B595, looking back
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 | Then a traverse of a forest on the French mountainside of Puig de Taravaus
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 | to arrive at Coll de Taravaus with bm596.
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 | Bm596
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 | Bm596
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 | Bm596
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 | Then passing a fence and further on taking a dirtroad sharp to the right which descends
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 | to Font de Taravaus
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 | which is also dry.
The wind is still very, very strong and I can't find a spot enough
protected from the wind to pitch my tent. I try one pitch but the wind
is simply too strong
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 | So I end up sleeping at the source. 'En plein air' but not bad, a bit sheltered for the wind and a flat undergroud.
I cook my pasta meal and at 21:00 I am in my sleeping bag.
Although the wind keeps raging all night, I sleep fairly warm and well.
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