The
bordermarkers of the Pyrenees : all my trips
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- sunday 2 june
2013 -
Bm139: cornerstone of a cabin
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Summary: a seven-days trip with Jan-Willem with a lot of targets in the Basque country and around Llivia.
Day 3: two trips (exploring a route between bm139 and 138 and visiting again bm196) and a transfer to a camping near Isaba.
Weather: cloudy/foggy
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Trip 1
A small trip to explore a direct route between bm138 and 139.
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esfr-trip-track-20130602-trip1.kml
(click to open this trip
in Google
Earth or copy link to Google Maps; click right on this
link to download gpx-version)
For
explanation of
the gps-coordinates and other cartographic backgrounds:
cartography page
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According
to visugpx
- distance : 1,9 km
- cum. elevation gain : 170 m
- cum. elevation loss : 163 m
- total elevation: 333 m
- altitude maxi : 728 m
- altitude mini : 576 m
- altitude average : 653 m
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We first drive to bm139.
The kid of the farmhouse has built a messy cabin against the bordermarker, using it as a cornerstone. We forgive him.
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Bm139
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Bm139
The farmer's wife gives us some directions and together with our gps, we can easily find a route to bm138. I'm content.
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It results in the following directions from bm138 towards 139:
- from bm138 go a bit to the W until the end of the dirtroad in a final
bend of the road. At this point two streams come together continuing SE
- cross the 1st stream, the dirtroad becomes a path
- cross the second stream
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- and climb to a semi-open place in the forest
- the trail seems to vanish SW in the direction of 3 large trees
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- but after the last of those trees, the trail reappears
-and after ± 100m crosses a third stream
- then go left on the trail
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- the trail climbs gently SE and arrives at a fence
- cross the fence
- descend SE in the forest with keeping the fence/rockwall at your left in sight
- after ± 200m you'll get to a tiny stream and beyond it another fence
- cross that fence and continue descending SE for ± 150m in the forest until you reach the tarmac road
- go left for ± 100m until a farmhouse left
- bm139 is at the opposite site of the road, in front of a small barn.
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We can now merge the two explorations (from yesterday and today) in one map (derived from the Aragon Sitna-website): how to descend from bm137 to 139.
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Trip 2
We return to
Saint-Étienne-de-Baïgorry, pack our tent and drive to Isaba to the
Asolaze-camping.
We make a stop at bm196 to make some other pictures. We discovered this long sought borderstone two days earlier on 20130531
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Bm196
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Bm196
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Bm196
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And the distances between bm196 and the balustrade and the legs of the disapeared billboard:
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Bm196
I'm very convinced that this is bm196 but finding a number would have been 100% evidence.
But after digging a few hours on , we gave up for that last proof.
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But
2 months later - on july 31th - I received pictures of Anne-Marie Bats and
Bernadette. They have continued where Jan-Willem and I had to stop and
delivered the ultimate evidence:
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Camping Asolaze is ± 20km from the
borderpass of Col de la Pierre St-Martin.
A short
reconnaissance-drive up the mountains, tells us that there is still too
much snow for our scheduled trip to the bm251-cross. We have to change our
plans.
That's what we decide in the evening, the camping has a nice communal
room & kitchen. There's also wifi, something which has become a
conditio sine qua non for us. We're getting spoilt.
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