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The bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : to-do list
Planning 2022
spring 2022
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Overall: having
visited every bm at least twice
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (001-311)
- climb from bm001 straight to bm002 (check situation after the fires of february 2021)
- checking bm076 (missing in july 2021): is it back, perhaps tumbled downhill?
- check if bm044L (relocated by me in 2020) is still there (and the unnumbered third plate)
- check if the shortcut along bm062 is still possible and 'legal' (see 21-7-2017)
- redo bm085-130
- redo bm131-143
- redo bm144-154
- redo
bm174-195 (incl. check of the main route between 178 en 184)
- revisiting bm196 (excavated by Jan-Willem Doomen and me on 31-5-2013)
Hautes-Pyrénées (312-417)
- new search for the missing 'bornes de paçage' between bm333 and bm358
- checking a direct route from bm358 to 359 (see this page)
- a new search for markers A to D from the 'terrain indivis' S of the bm408-409-borderline
- a survey of the hydrography around Cabane de Héréchet
Ariège (418-426)
Pyrénées-Orientales (427-602)
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summer 2022
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Overall: having
visited every bm at least twice
Pyrénées-Atlantiques (001-311)
Hautes-Pyrénées (312-417)
- redo the
main route between 314 and 319
- redo the climb to 315 from the Spanish side
- redo bm330bis to see the engravings of Jean-Paul Laborie.
Ariège (418-426)
-redoing the new Andorran-French markers
Pyrénées-Orientales (427-602)
- bm542 once again by the classic route to see if it's still possible
- visiting bm602 again, for example with a kayak or by swimming |
| winter 2022-23 |
Completing the
GRPdesBF-stages on the website |
| winter 2022-23 |
Writing and
publishing my topoguide of the GRPdesBF |
Bordermarkers - still to find or disappeared
The present situation (july 2021): bordermarkers not found.
Bordermarkers not found
| bm236 |
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cross
at the summit of Pic d'Orhy, not found on 20090601, 20110817 and 20170730 neither
by others. Official reports consider this bm as disappeared. |
| bm255 |
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borderstone on the Port
d'Ourdayté, not found on 20090602, 20090603, 201010910, 20130902
and 20200907. There are
reports that this bm disappeared in september 2007. |
| bm271bis |
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bm271bis is
considered to be destroyed, the site was visited on 20110828 and 20120829
and 20130901.
See 20130901
for an analysis of the original location of bm271bis. |
| bm297 |
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cross engraved in a rockwall but destroyed/disappeared. The
site was visited on 20120827.
Was 'replaced' in 1977-78 by a masonry pillar on a hilltop 175m away. |
| bm359 |
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found on 20110901
and revisited on 20140527
thanks to directions of Paco Nudels and Charles & Josette Darrieu.
However: questions remain if this is the real bm359. See this page for those questions. |
| bm364 |
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not found on 20090610,
20100913 , 20110901
and 20150707. And
neither found by Robert Darrieumerlou,Paco Nudels, Charles & Josette
Darrieu and Jacques Koleck. Paco supplied an old
picture of the bm on this page, originating from the Archives de la
Guardia Civil. |
| Llivia bm16north |
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Llivia has its own
set of 45 bordermarkers from which 9 are double
bm's. Somehow, I never searched for the second bm16 until 20130604.
The treaty explicitly states that there are two markers no. 16. I
couldn't find it. Charles Darrieu and Jacques Koleck couldn't find it
either. It might be removed when the road was enlarged. |
GRPdesBF-page
- design of the main
route
- design of the variants
- perhaps a page on
lightweight-backpacking
History-page
- more information on the actual existing delimitation from the Treaty
of the Pyrenees (1659) until the Bayonne-treaties, three centuries later
- more information on the delimitation-process in 19th century. Perhaps Sermet's "La Frontière hispano-française des Pyrénées: et les conditions de sa délimitation" can supply that
information.
- add information on the Lies and Passeries, centuries-old local cross-border
agreements on cattle grazing and mutual support and perhaps
delimitation.
Curiosities-page
- add an item on the
French hamlet of Ondarolle which religiously resides under the Spanish
church.
- draw the line of the
watershed on a map and compare it with the actual borderline.
Bibliography-section
- put local versions of
all treaties and other documents on the website itself
- extract the esfr-treaties from the "Documentos internacionales del reinado de dona Isabel II desde1842 a 1968 Parte 1
- 1869" and put these Spanish-language documents on the website
if not available elsewhere.
Cartography-page
- adding the esfr-bordermarkers and missing trails on Open
Streetmap (OSM).
Miscellania-pages
- add a page on the
morphology of the bordermarkers: on their design, their
differences and similarities
In general
- make a link down below
on the (long) pages to quickly return to above instead of having to
scroll back to the top.
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