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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


track-20230418.gpx
This gpx-track has not been manually corrected which explains the inaccuracy and misalignment at some points. The original elevation recording has been replaced by more accurate DEM-data with Gpsvisualizer.com. For cartographic backgrounds: see the cartography-page

Gps-waypoints of all bordermarkers (most recent version):
kml:  esfr-bordermarkers-all-waypoints.kml
gpx:  esfr-bordermarkers-all-waypoints.gpx (with reliable elevation data added by gpsvisualizer.com)
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
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



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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