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esfr-trip-track-20100711.kml (click to open in Google Earth or copy link to Google Maps; click right on this link to download gpx-version) A long daytrip from Puigcerda with the main target of finding the Llvian bm's 24,26 & 27 which where not found on my trip on 28 sept 2005. But Martial Garcia did find them in 2009 and his information is very helpful. Weather: very warm and sunny untill halfway the afternoon. |
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For explanation of
the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds: see my cartography page According to the gps-tripteller: - 32,4km - time moved 6.57 - time standing still 3.47 - in total ± 10.45 including breaks - total ascent: 505meters - maximum height: 1582m |
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According
to visugpx - distance : 30.5 km - cum. elevation gain : 530 m - cum. elevation loss : 526 m - total elevation: 1056 - altitude maxi : 1575 m - altitude mini : 1142 m - altitude average : 1329 m |
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Early
start (6.45am) in Puigcerda. Before crossing the border-bridge to
Bourg-Madame, I enter the garden (tackling the wall along the river) of
that large - probably inhabited - house (though I notice a car besides
it) I found bm481es there on 10 july 2005 and I want another picture and a gps-waypoint. It's difficult to find it again but the bm is still there, covered in a bush and by moss, standing just besides the wall. |
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Bm481es |
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I sneak out of the
garden and continue: While crossing the bridge, I make pictures of the
bm's 480 on the bridge |
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Bm480north |
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Bm480south |
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Walking
via Onzès, Lliva-town and Cereja to LL25.. It's nice & quiet on this beautiful sunday morning. |
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Reaching LL25 takes
a detour through the forest. |
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Then
further to the camping "La Griollo". This is a sign of a trail
"discovering an enclave" I saw on the camping. No idea of its course or
extent but intriguing. Anyway: via country roads to the sewer-cleaning-facility near LL24. |
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Abundant weed and a
swollen stream
make getting to the conjuction of the two streams - just beyond the
installation - somewhat difficult. But findig LL24 is easy: its's ± 20 meters beyond the conjunction at the right bank of the stream at the top of a boulder. |
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LL24 with the help
of chalk. |
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LL24 |
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LL24 Then I climb along the small stream back to the camping-area. By the way: climbing directly from LL24 to LL25 can be done. I remember doing that on 28 sept 2005. A beer at the camping-bar and a nice chat with the dutch landlady about the self-centeredness of both French and Spanish communities in this borderregion. There's hardly any exchange. |
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Further via the
tarmac road - with Martial's information - to LL26 which is easily
found thanks to that information.. It's along the side of a meadow surrounded by an iron cable. The meadow is - say - 100 meters from the tarmac road. The bm is along the side parallel to the road |
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LL26 |
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LL26 |
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The next one - LL27
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difficult to find in a bunch of boulders, all covered with moss and
hidden by bush. Martial's direction of a luggage rack thrown against
it, is indispensable.. These boulders are situated next to the road and the one with the bm more close to it.. |
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The cross itself is
on on top of the boulder and not obvious to notice from the ground. |
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The boulder with
LL26 on top. |
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And now chalked. |
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Further to LL28 for
a remake-picture and waypointing. |
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And finally to LL29 |
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to photograph the cross on top of this boulder, as Martial found out. |
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LL29 |
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LL29 |
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I return via Ceraja
to Llivia-town and visit for a moment of
memento-mori this cemetery. |
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On my way to
Puigcerda, I
somehow miss the country road to Onzès and so I pass LL01 on
the
main road between Llivia-town and Puigcerda. |
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Backside of LL01 |
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As I reach
the viaduct/bridge over the Rahur, a thunderstorm starts.
I take shelter underneath the viaduct. |
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After the storm, I
cross the bridge and |
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make pictures of
the special (unnumbered) bordermarkers on it |
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And take from the
bridge a picture of the old bridge over the Rahur which is the border. |
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and subsequently
recross the Rahur on that old bridge with the bm's 477. |
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Bm477south |
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Bm477north |
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Via the country
road to Bourg-Madame, bm479fr is still there behind the
fence of the garden of a youth holiday center. I take my chance - it's
rainy, everyone is inside -to sneak on the premises and make close
pictures and waypoints. |
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Bm479fr In Bourg-Madame sheltering again for a second wave of rain & thunder and then back to Puigcerda. At night I watch together with the hotel-owner's family the world champion soccer final between Spain and Holland, lost by my fellow countrymen.... |
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