The bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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25 august
2006 - Montgarri
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Trip-summary.
Part of 7-days trip from Alós de Isil to Canejan, exploring the
bordermarker-range bm422 - bm411.
Day 2: from Pont Perosa to Col
d'Aula (bm421) to Montgarri.
- walking time: 6½ h
- cum. elevation gain : ± 1050
- cum. elevation loss :± 750
- total elevation: ± 1800 m
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From my camping spot above Pont de Perosa, I climb in 2 hours to Col d'Aula on a red/white waymarked trail.
Weather: clear skies.
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At the col - with splendid views on both sides - there's a cross as well as a pillar bm421
Coordinates N42 46 22.8 E1 4 56.5
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Additional information from Charles Darrieu in 2011: the cross on the horizontal rock is the original and official bordermarker.
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The
pillar besides it was placed somewhere between 1949 and 1998 by the
border commisioners Jean Sermet and his Spanish colleague M. Alija.
Because
this col can be reached by a mountain road from Spain, they
decided to indicate the borderline better with this pillar.
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But it's not an official bordermarker.
(source: "De quelques questions touchant l'Abornement frontalier 1949-1998" - Jean Sermet)
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I descend back to Pont de Perosa in 1½ h. and from the Pont it's 2½ h walking to Montgarri.
This picture: while descending to Pont de Perosa.
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It starts to rain and in Montgarri it's pouring.
There's sort of festival in that nice hamlet and I take a break for a coffee.
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And then - about
half an hour beyond Montgarri but± 10 minutes before Cabana de Parros -
I find this camping spot. Height: ± 1800 m.
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