2nd July
Woke up at stupid o'clock feeling cold, put on some extra clothes and then didn't wake up until 8.15, so much for an early start! It was a beautiful morning and I wasn't long eating my porridge and getting packed up and away fairly steeply down the hill.
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| Wooded slopes |
The descent is then on an ancient path to drop gently down to Estaon
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| The roofs of Estaon |
I arrived in Estaon at the right time of for a nice cup of tea at the Refugio and to fill my water bottle which was the first chance since Drove yesterday.
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| Estaon |
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| Track by the river |
The track continues up through a beautiful wooded valley with loads of butterflies in the sunny spaces to arrive at the abandoned hamlet of Bodres de Nibros, still looking reasonable but with access only by a quad bike at best unlikely to be resurrected.
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| Bodres de Nibros |
A stiff climb up the hillside which is covered with Broom, it would be a great sight when it's all flowering.
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| Coll de Jou and the broom covered hillsides |
Over the top and a long descent that turned into a track after passing a water trough surrounded by cows and a bull.
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| Hogging (cowing?) the watertrough |
At Lleret there seems to be not much more than a water point and about two houses but a fine zigzag road to get there.
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| Water point at Lleret |
I didn't take the road but took the spectacular high-level path that traverses the side of the valley to Aineto.
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| Path traversing the hillside |
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| Looking down from the path at Lladorre |
An 'ordinary' path then continues to Tavascan where I had found a good price for a hotel room.
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| The old bridge at Tavascan |
The maps that I attach are pretty useless but you can download the map of the whole route here and zoom in on the bits you want to look at.
1 comment:
Good to see you still doing well Roger. You are lucky with the weather. My notes refer to being able to fry eggs on the rocks (perhaps a slight exaggeration) - the heat was really draining.
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