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tuesday 26 august
2025 - Finding bm271bis (and redoing 271)  previous
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Summary:
one of 7 daytrips from which 6 were done with Carlos &
Conchita Roca to assist them in their quest to finish doing all
esfr-bordermarkers. Today: a solotrip to find bm271bis, recently discovered by Sébastien Marc (see this post) and redo bm271. Weather: cloudy with sunny spells |
 track-20250826.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 The original elevation recording has been replaced by more accurate DEM-data with Gpsvisualizer.com.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: 14,2 km Max-height: 2355m Min-height: 1678m Elevation: +923m -923m Total elevation: 1846m Start 7:11 Finish 15:03 Total time: 7:52 |
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My basecamp for 2 nights in Arette. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Parking La Contienda. (click photo to enlarge) I use a gpx-route with intermediate waypoints which I made a few years ago, based on routes I spotted on Osm and Topopirineos. See for more information (maps and considerations) on this alternative route this page. Navigation will be along 8 waypoints. Those waypoints are integrated in this kml-file (gpx-file with this link). |
 | Via a network of crosscountry ski-lanes (click photo to enlarge) |
 | to a large meadow where I enter the rocky karst-plateau. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | After a while I reach open grassy terrain. There are some cairns and now and then trails but not consistent to guide you. I work my way from waypoint to waypoint. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Some wildlife in between. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | The goal is already visible but still far away. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | After a mixture of grassy terrain and rocky patches, I am getting closer to the final part. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | At the final ridge, now at the left side (click photo to enlarge) |
 | and later on shifting to the right side. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | I have now passed bm271 and this is sort of col between two flattened pics. With the help of Sébastien's Strava-gps and pictures, I knew already where to go. Beyond the col and after ± 70m you have to leave the ridge itself and continue left under the ridge, slightly descending. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | And then - after ± 30m - there she is: bm271bis! Already chalked by Corinne Gourgeonnet who was here some days before. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm271bis I have searched for this marker four times in all those years since 2010. You might check those searches on this page. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm271bis The main reason for not finding is that the Treaty of 1858 states a wrong distance between bm271 and 271bis. It says 360m while in reality the distance is ± 200m (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm271bis with myself. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | I return to the ridge but halfway I look back. My red-white pole is standing at the spot of bm271bis. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Now I am back at the ridge itself. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | I return to bm271bis and make a small cairn. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | On the ridge I continue ± 75m E to revisit this metal plate. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | It has the shape of Navarra (click photo to enlarge) |
 | and reads the txt G.M. Sangüesa Monte Añelarra Altitud 2345 m 28-6-1981 Pelegrin Angel Serrano wrote me once that it is a non-official plaque of the "Grupo de Montaña Sangüesa", apparently a mountaineers-club. See also 1-9-2013 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Then I return, not without redoing bm271. This picture: looking W with the mini-col in front and then the ridge climbing slowly (click photo to enlarge) |
 | to - zoom-in - a geodetic marker. That is approximately above bm271 which is at the south-side of the ridge. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | First to bm271 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm271 Who paints these markers, one wonders. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Bm271 (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Now on top of the ridge the geodetic marker. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | And then there is a mysterious cross, close to bm271 which was discovered by Corinne Gourgeonnet a few days ago. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | I am content and return (click photo to enlarge) |
 | the same way. (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Close to the large meadow below Pic d'Arlas, I watch a signpost (click photo to enlarge) |
 | forbidding entrance. But who cares? (click photo to enlarge) |
 | Now the meadow is close and soon I will be back at my car. The next day I will drive to Pont d'Espagne where I will meet Carlos & Conchita to walk to Refuge Wallon. (click photo to enlarge) |
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