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sunday 10 september
2023 -
Revisiting bm417 with Carlos & Conchita
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Summary:
part of a series of 9 daytrips in september 2023.
This is day 8.
Today: a tring trip to bm417 with Carlos & Conchita Roca.
Weather: overcast and sunny
Basecamp: camping Espalias in Bossòst.
Same trip to be seen at Carlos & Conchita's website.
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According to Garmin
Basecamp (uncorrected track with elevation added by Gpsvisualizer.com):
Distance: 14,3 km
Max-height: 2020m
Min-height: 900m
Elevation: +1171m -1169m
Total elevation: 2340m
Start 7:06 Finish 16:26
Total time: 9:20
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| Yesterday I made a transfer from Arthies to camping Espalias in Bossòst.
In the evening I met Carlos and Conchita Roca who arrived from Barcelona.
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| Together we will climb today to bm417.
Early start in Caneja, so early that we had to wait a while in the car until dawn.
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| The start of the steep trail
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| which gets flatter higher on.
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| Now we are not far from
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| a drinking place for cattle.
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| Then traversing a forest to the other site where
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| a second drinking place has been constructed in recent years.
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| From the second drinking place we climb through the forest uphill.
Note the green waymarking at the tree, also something new.
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| Having arrived at the borderridge.
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| The trail takes us E, sometimes traversing underneath hilltops like here.
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| We pass bm415.
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| Bm415
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| Bm415
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| Bm415
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| Bm415
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| Bm415
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| Bm415
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| Now we are a lot further, we skip bm416 for now.
We have crossed a sort of ridge and have an overview of the terrain to conquer.
From an earlier trip to bm417, I remember a solitary tree as orientation point.
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| We have now reached the solitary tree and from there
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| we will climb to a sort of pass
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| On our way up. No trails but grass and rockfalls, very tiring.
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| Zoom-in to the solitary tree.
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| Now we are almost at the pass and in the far distance
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| I can spot the old shepherd's cabin where I had dinner with shepherd Roger on 28-8-2006.
The cabin seems deserted since years.
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| From the 'pass' we climb E uphill to
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| the summit of Cap de la Pique with bm417.
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| Bm417
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| Bm417
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And this is panorama-video (converted to an animated gif-file).
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| It's been a touch climb and Carlos takes a rest, enjoying the landscape.
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| Bm417
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| Bm417
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| Bm417
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| We have now returned to the pass and will descend back.
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| A view back to Cap de la Pique.
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| Now almost back at the solitary tree.
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| Further on we take a break.
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| Now we have time to do bm416.
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| Bm416
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| Bm416
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| Bm416
There should be number 416 on this rock but I can't find it.
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But this old picture of Charles & Josette Darrieu shows the spot.
"Charles
& Josette Darrieu pointed out in january 2011 that on the cross
besides the pillar, the number was missing and later added.
Their source: "1957- Journal de la Restauration de l’Abornement de la Haute Garonne, J Sermet-L. Alija""
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| Bm416
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| A last view back to Cap de la Pique
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| with on this zoom-in the route to bm417.
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| Back at the second drinking place, short drinking break.
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| Later on, another moment of rest.
I was once invited in the house in the background: see "Drinking wine with a sailor".
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| And now we are back in Canejan
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| with an artistic flower exhibition.
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| Enjoying a beer at the cafe in Canejan.
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| And at night we have dinner at C&C's cabin. A bottle of cava to celebrate
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| the conquering of bm417 and eliminating it on the to-do-list.
Tomorrow we will spend a day in Lourdes for some sight-seeing and a day of rest.
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