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- 23
april
2007 -
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Trip-summary.
Part of a 6 day's trip with Jan-Willem, exploring the
bordermarkers around Coustouges and Lamanère: bm521-541.
Day 6: after finding bm526 and bm527, we leave the area and walk via
Coustouges to Spain.
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Distance : 21.305 km
Altitudes :
Maxi 1115 m Mini 465 m
Dénivelées :
+321 m -747 m
cumulative 1068 m
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At 7 am, I go for a last solo-trip
while Jan-Willem remains in the tent.
From bm525 I descend with help of compass and gps along the borderline
until the spot of bm526. It takes a little searching to find it on a
bigger rocky part.
Coordinates
N42 21 17.3 E2 35 15.8 |
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Bm526
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From bm526 there's a
waymarked trail
going down along the supposed borderline. It's less steep then the
descent from bm525 to bm526.
Soon you'll reach a rocky ridge which descends to further below. Follow
that ridge itself and after 20-30 meters you'll find bm527, on top of
the ridge.
Coordinates
N42 21 13.6 E2 35 24.2 |
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Bm527 from some distance. In the
distance, deep down below: the meadows of Hostal de la Muga.
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I return, soon loosing the
trail and climbing directly to Col de Massanes. "Hunting
reserved"-signs like these help to keep the borderline in view.
Back at the tent at 9 am.
We pack our things and try a direct path to Villeroje. Soon there's a
blue waymarked trail to the right. But we continue on the dirtroad
(neglecting a 'no entry' sign) where at the second hairpin bend the
blue trail reappears.
The blue trail is apparently a shortcut.
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The
snowcapped Canigou.
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This is probably a view to
the SE with the rocky borderridge clearly visible, I think where bm527
is located.
There are also nice views of Hostal de la Muga. When the dirtroad
bends to the left, we follow a path (no waymarks) to the east (so
straight on as it were).
It ends at the edge of Villeroja. That is to say: a hamlet south of
Villeroje where a few refuse bins are standing.
That's where the dirtroad to Hostal de la Muga starts. But also the
forest road to Coustouges which is our next goal.
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Via
Coustouges descending to the borderbridge with this monument. The
bridge was built in 1995, we didn't see any border markings on the
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From the bridge or a bit
beyond, this zoom-in view into the valley where bm542 is located along
the stream.
Move the mouse over the
picture to see the borderline and bordermarkers.
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And a zoom-out view
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We continue on the road to
Maçanets de Cabrenys until we find beyond Tapis this suitable camping
spot on a sideroad.
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