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tuesday 18 april
2023 -
Revisiting bm518-520 from Col d'Ares
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Summary:
part of a series of 5 daytrips and one 3-days backpacking trip in april
2023.
This is day 7.
Today: from Col d'Ares re-doing bm518-520 because the last time visited was 10 years or longer ago.
Weather: cloudy, some rain
Basecamp: camping Maureillas
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According to Garmin
Basecamp (uncorrected track with elevation added by Gpsvisualizer.com):
Distance: 4,6 km
Max-height: 1575m
Min-height: 1367m
Elevation: +297m -298m
Total elevation: 595m
Start 11:22 Finish 13:15
Total time: 1:52
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| Starting at Col d'Ares.
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| Bm519 is at the other side of the road.
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| Bm519
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| Bm519
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| Bm519
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| From there a yellow-red waymarked trail goes W through a forest to
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| the open hillridge where bm518 is.
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| Bm518
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| Bm518
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| Going back, entering the forest
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| and returning at Col d'Ares
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| with bm519 once again.
The building used to be a restaurant, a long time ago.
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| At the Col a monument remembering
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| the refugees who fled Spain after the Civil War in 1939.
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| At the other side of the Col taking a mountain road
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| which is also on the yellow-red waymarked trail.
This the GRP Tour de Vallespir.
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The dirtroad bring you (underneath Mont Falgars) to
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| this hillridge which is the borderline.
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| Waymarking is ok but at one point I lose it and
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| just descend through the forest along the borderfence
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| until I spot in the distance the rock with bm520.
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| Getting closer to bm520.
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| Bm520
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| Bm520 which is not painted.
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| Bm520
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| I see to the right a
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| remembrance plaque
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| for Jacques and Yolande. Who were they?
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| I return, a view back to
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| the rock of bm520,
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| Wayfinding back is easier.
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| Back at Col d'Ares in a shower.
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| But downhil in the lovely town of Prats-de-Mollo-la-Preste the sun is shining again.
A coffee-break in a cafe and back to the camping.
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