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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
Trip 1
Bm084


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
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.
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
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).
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
Having passed bm083 and almost at the bifurcation of GR10 and GRPdesBF
Almost at bm084
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.
Bm084
Bm084
Bm084
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.
This is the steep hillside where the GR10 descends.
There is a barn in the background but meant for cattle.
The signpost tells you that it is 2.10h to Bidarray and
it warns you: "Danger falaises!"
It 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.
This picture: you can spot the ravin-like stream-descent originating from the spot of bm084.
I return and check two barns a bit off the GR10
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.
Trip 2
Bm200-205

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
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.
The spot of bm205 at Col d'Arnostéguy
but I first walk along a dirtroad/track to bm200.
Arriving at the small fenced meadow where bm200 stands to the left againt the foreststrip.
Same spot but seen froom the other side
Bm200
Bm200
Bm200
Bm200
Now returning, the top of bm201 is visible at roadside
Bm201
Bm201
Bm201
Bm202 in sight
Bm202
Bm202
Bm202
Bm202
Further on: bm203
Bm203
Bm203
Bm203
Bm203
Bm204 to the right
Bm204
Bm204
Bm204
Bm204
Bm205 at Col d'Arnostéguy
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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