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sunday 3 september
2023 -
Revisiting bm331
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Summary:
part of a series of 9 daytrips in september 2023.
This is day 3.
Today: a short climb to redo bm331, I did this one for the last time at least 10 years ago.
Weather: cloudy in the first half, sunny while returning.
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According to Garmin
Basecamp (uncorrected track with elevation added by Gpsvisualizer.com):
Distance: 7,0 km
Max-height: 2373m
Min-height: 1780m
Elevation: +619m -619m
Total elevation: 1238m
Start 11:46 Finish 15:16
Total time: 3:31
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| In the morning I drive from camping Espalias in Bossóst to beyond Benasque.
At the end of a wide tarmac road, I park my car.
I wonder why this road is so wide and stops so suddenly. As if they planned at one time a tunnel to Bagnères-de-Luchon.
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| This is the end of the road and the start of the trail to bm331.
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| Yellow-green waymarkings, starting to climb through a forest and
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| arriving at open terrain
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| to cross the stream here.
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| Later on arriving at this lake with the Port de la Glère already in sight.
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| At the Port, bm331 is on a rock considerably above the pass.
It took me 1,5h to get here.
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| Bm331
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| Bm331
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| Bm331
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| Bm331
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| Bm331, looking down at the pass.
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| View from the pass to bm331.
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| Zoom-in to bm331.
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| From the pass, this view into France.
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| Then returning to my car, this is the last rocky part.
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| I end up at the pleasant camping Aneto.
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