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bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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27 august
2010 -
Assiette du randonneur
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esfr-trip-track-20100827.kml
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Summary: part of a 11-days backpacking trip from Cauterets to
Loudenvielle ‘doing” bm315 to bm330. Day 3: descending from the border-ridge to Gavarnie and climbing back into the mountains.
Weather: overall a warm and sunny day.
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For explanation of
the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds:
see my cartography page
Start: 08.30, break: 12.45-14.15, finish: 16.45, net walking time: 6.45 According to the gp-tripteller: Distance: 17,6 km Time moved: 5.36h Time standing still: 2.39h In total: 8.15h Total ascent: 813m Maximum height: 2285m
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According
to visugpx
- distance : 16.02 km
- cum. elevation gain : 826 m
- cum. elevation loss : 972 m
- total elevation: 1798
- altitude maxi : 2281 m
- altitude mini : 1374 m
- altitude average : 1872 m
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Very
windy night causing numerous wake-ups by the noise.
I try a shortcut to
bm319 but the roadside is too steep, it’s better to take the path to
the parking area and then continue on the tarmac road to bm319
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Further on, the road is blocked by fallen rocks like this. The roads ends at the borderline anyway
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The Port de Boucharo in sight, with the rock with bm319.
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Bm319
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Bm319
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Bm319, looking back into France
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This whole area around Mont Perdu is an Unesco Heritage site as this plate at the back of the rock, kindly tells us.
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Looking into Spain from the Port. On a Spanish map there's a winding road visible from here to down below. But there's no trace of it in the landscape, only a footpath.
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Then
a long tiring descent into the Vallée des Pouey Aspé along Cabane des soldats to Gavarnie.
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A bit lower in the valley
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Before and after Gavarnie splendid views
of the Cirque de Gavarnie.
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In Gavarnie lunch with
an “assiette du randonneur”.
Beyond the Maison du Parc and between two houses in a narrow alley,
starts the trail to Refuge de Espaguetttes. After the bridge to the
right and the path climbs along a stream at your left through a beach
forest. That’s a delight after two days of exposed mountain terrain. |
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Later
on there are sign-boards again, waymarking is not abundant but it
should do to bring you to Refuge des Espaguettes, 200m off the path.
This is a zoom-in on the summit of Vignemale, visible to the nw. |
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And again: splendid views on Cirque de Gavarnie
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And here looking forward to the rocky ridge of Hourquette d'Alans, the mountain-pass I will climb tomorrow.
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It's too late to continue to bm320 and there’s a nice camping-spot with a
running waterhose nearby and with some shelter from a wall. The wind has subsided and low clouds are sailing in, sealing off the outer world.
Camp: N42 43 12.6 E000 00 52.6 H2061m
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