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tuesday 25 july
2017 -
Transfer Dantxarria -
St-Étiènne-de-Baïgorry
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Summary: part of 13 day-trips in
the Pyrenees, covering various
targets from the Basque country up to Llivia.
Today: two short trips while and after my transfer to St-Étiènne-de-Baïgorry:
1. bm84 (forgotten 2 days ago)
2. redoing bm200-205
Weather: chilly, windy, cloudy
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Trip 1
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Bm084
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track-20170725-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). The gps-track has not been
manually corrected which explains the
inaccuracy and misalignment at some points. For cartographic
backgrounds: see the cartography-page
According to Google Earth: 4,4km, max-height 724m, min-height 610m
Start 12:18 Finish 13:33
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| I break up at the camping in Dantxarria en head for the camping municipal in Saint-Étiènne-de-Baïgorry.
It's is dry again and the hills and bordermarkers are waiting. I drive
uphill to Col de Méhatché (bm080) where I was on sunday.
I then forgot bm84 and that's the goal for this short trip.
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| It's windy and chilly.
I don't photograph bm080-083 again, having done them two days ago.
But this picture shows the spot where you have to leave the GR10 trail and go NE or N for ± 100m
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| to get to this circle of rocks with bm081.
You can't see them from the GR10-track, you have to climb a bit uphill NE of N to distinguish them.
Bm081 is within 100m of the main GRPdesBF-route and thus makes part of it (requiring no variant).
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| Continuing on the GR10 and beyond bm082 this view ahead.
It shows it all. The GRPdesBF-route makes a detour off the GR10 to make a circle around the hilltop to cover bm084
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| Having passed bm083 and almost at the bifurcation of GR10 and GRPdesBF
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| Almost at bm084
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| Bm084
Looking in the direction to continue to merge again with the GR10
Bm084 stands (approximately) where a stream starts (=the borderline), soon descending very steeply.
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| Bm084 |
| Bm084 |
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| I complete the circle to get back at the GR10.
I want to have a look at the steep half-circle descent into the valley.
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| This is the steep hillside where the GR10 descends.
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| There is a barn in the background but meant for cattle.
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| The signpost tells you that it is 2.10h to Bidarray and
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| it warns you: "Danger falaises!"
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frightened me on my first descent in 1996 or 1997 but I can't remember
something special when Jan-Willem Doomen and I descended on
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| I see down below cables attached to the rocks for safety.
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| This picture: you can spot the ravin-like stream-descent originating from the spot of bm084.
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| I return and check two barns a bit off the GR10
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| which are just barns and no refuges or shelters.
Back to the car and to the camping in St-Étiènne-de-Baïgorry which is a crowded family-camping in this holiday season.
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Trip 2
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Bm200-205
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track-20170725-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). The gps-track has not been
manually corrected which explains the
inaccuracy and misalignment at some points. For cartographic
backgrounds: see the cartography-page
According to Google Earth: 4,4km, max-height 724m, min-height 610m
Start 12:18 Finish 13:33
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| In the afternoon, I drive a long way up the hills to bm205 above Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port.
I pass some pilgrims making their first steps towards Santiago-de-Compostella like I did in 1997.
I visit bm200 to 205 in chilly and cloudy weather, having decided
to 'do' all bordermarkers twice with at least one year time in
between.
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| The spot of bm205 at Col d'Arnostéguy
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| but I first walk along a dirtroad/track to bm200.
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| Arriving at the small fenced meadow where bm200 stands to the left againt the foreststrip.
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| Same spot but seen froom the other side
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| Bm200
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| Bm200 |
| Bm200 |
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| Now returning, the top of bm201 is visible at roadside
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| Bm201
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| Bm201 |
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| Bm202 in sight
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| Bm202 |
| Bm202 |
| Bm202 |
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| Further on: bm203
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| Bm203 |
| Bm203 |
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| Bm204 to the right
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| Bm204 |
| Bm204 |
| Bm204 |
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| Bm205 at Col d'Arnostéguy
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| Bm205 |
| Bm205
I regret afterwards not having done bm199 which I have photographed already 3 times but all in 2009. Perhaps tomorrow.
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