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thursday 5 september
2024 - Revisiting bm196 and bm098-102  previous
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Summary:
part of a series of 8 daytrips in august / september 2024. This is daytrip 7. Today: a visit to bm196 and from Col d'Ispeguy a roundrip to check on bm098-102. Weather: overcast and sunny |
 track-20240905.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 The original elevation recording has been replaced by more accurate DEM-data with Gpsvisualizer.com.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) |
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According to Garmin
Basecamp (uncorrected track with elevation added by Gpsvisualizer.com): Distance: 7,5 km Max-height: 892m Min-height: 659m Elevation: +453m -453m Total elevation: 906m Start 13:47 Finish 16:29 Total time: 2:42 |
 | In the early morning a drive from Lescun to Arnéguy in the Basque country. At the venta-complex I visit once again bm196. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm196 And why once again? Bm196 has been buried under the ground for many years. But Jan-Willem Doomen and me found it back on 31 may 2013 and later it was lifted above the ground. So I feel a bit like the godfather of this bordermarker. See this page for the chain of events since our first searches. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm196 is still there (click photo to enlarge) |
 | in danger of getting overgrown. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm196, last picture. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Then driving to Col d'Ispeguy where it starts raining. So first a lunch with French fries, sausages and fried eggs. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Then I take a new trail (red-white waymarked) along the hillside (click photo to enlarge) |
 | which climbs finally (click photo to enlarge) |
 | the plateau of Col d'Elhorrrieta. with bm102 in the background. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm102, still in good shape. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm102 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm102 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Then my real target no. 1: bm101. Nothing has changed since my last visit in april 2022. See also this blog-post. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm101 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm101 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm101 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm101 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Then target no. 2: also with bm100 nothing has happened since 2022. The bm has been broken off and has disappeared. Who cares? (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm100 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm100 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm100 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm100 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Luckily bm099 is still there. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm099 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm099 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm099 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Then to the shattered bm098. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | You have to know where you can find the bits and pieces. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | And that is on this spot, in the middle of a bunch of high grass. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Close to a fenced field. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | In april 2022 I found in this grass-spot the base of the bm, still in the ground. But the loose bits and pieces were lying a bit further. I reunited them. One of the pieces - the brown one - shows the groove which we see at the top of these markers, showing the direction of the borderline. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm098 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | I return to Col d'Ispéguy and I look back. In the circle the bunch of grass of bm098. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Zoom-in (click photo to enlarge) |
 | I continue on my return trip (click photo to enlarge) |
 | to Col d'Ispéguy. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | To finish, I photograph bm091. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm091 I drive to the Camping Municipal Irouléguy in Saint-Étiènne-de-Baïgorry. Tomorrow will be a day of rest. Also because of the rain. (click photo to enlarge) |
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