Spring trekking Pyrenees mountains
made to measure hiking and trekking
Hiking, trekking and walking in the French
Pyrenees mountains
(
Carlit Massive, Eastern French
Pyrenees)
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Your dates
best period : from june,1 to july 15 : SPRING
(AND MIDSUMMER'S NIGHT?) IN THE PYRENEAN PEAKS
also nice in summer
Level of difficulty **,
Landscape and photos ***, Wildlife ***, Flowers ***
Real trekking = hiking with rucksack and tent and
only what one really needs up into the mountains, walking along less known paths
only know by those shepherds and mountaineers that know and find them
because they live here. Level can be adapted choosing
other paths for families with kids.
For more comfortable but less adventurous
made to measure hikes, treks or walks from hut to hut
click here
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This
exciting spring trekking tour is the one to do if you can have the chance of a June vacation.
Hiking
at this time in the Pyrenees mountains is most beautiful, the animals are not yet shy, flowers are blooming everywhere,
the days are warm and long and there is still snow here and there.
We
walk through beautiful and wild landscapes such as the protected nature reserves
in the Carlit and Orlu massifs on either side of the Atlantic -
Mediterranean water divide.
We
start the hike from
Lanous
nature reserve and continue to an area of
outstanding natural beauty and
to nature reserves on the border of the French counties (departements) of
Ariège and Eastern Pyrenees (taking in the peaks Orlu, Camporells and Lanous).
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level
: for hikers and learners who want to get to know the Pyrenees mountains inside out,
who wish
to experience the transition from spring to summer and to spend 2 weeks in the
wilderness.
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rhythm
: around 6 hours walking per day, and after each 2 day's hiking a third day's
hike from a base camp (with just a light rucksack) to explore in depth the
local area, plus one complete rest day half way the tour.
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In Spring around half of June
Alpine flora in bloom is guaranteed, plus snow on high ground and the chance to
observe chamois, mouflons and marmots, and to take some good nature photos.
This trekking tour takes us by the most beautiful lakes and scenery in the
Pyrenees mountains region between
Carlit and Ax-les-Thermes.
There
are also a couple of bears living in the area we cross, and with a bit of luck
we'll come find some of their tracks.
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Day
1, 2 and 3 : In to the southern part of the Lanous Reserve
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Meeting point is Hospitalet
près l'Andorre Railway station 9 o'clock (night train from Paris arrives
here at 8).
Transfer by car to our starting point (1600M).
Start to Garcie valley,
Lake Coume d'Or, Lake Lanous (2230m)
Hiking through some wild lonely valleys now
full of blooming flowers strolling trying not to scare the marmots - they
just got their babies now.
Walking to even more beautiful views looking
for a nice places to put up our tent somewhere underneath peak Castel Isard
where live the chamois
(called Isard here) near a lake or clear mountain
stream.
As evening comes we go for a walk looking for chamois and moufflons
(wild sheep) until the darks invites us to our tent.
Hiking
along
Lanous across some less know pass off
the paths and along sheep trails to the blue lakes between peak de
la coumetta d'Espagna and the Grave valley.
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Day
4, 5 and 6: To the area of outstanding Natural Beauty (Site Classé)
Camporelles :
Hiking landscape
is different here looks more like a "canadian" mixture of high
meadows, woods and hidden mountain lake.
We camp near the calm and
beautiful main lake or overnight in the open hut (2240M) here.
Climbing
peak Peric (2810M), with just what we need for the day.
Exploring cool Cirque de Morties,(up to 2500M), de la Caiche
pass, Estany del Diable the Devils Lake.
It's full of flowers here, this
is really spring in the high mountain, lots of yellow, blue, white and
some red flowers : pulsatilas, anemones, gentians and lesser know lilies
and orchis.
In the higher valleys Chamois moms left the herd to get
their lambs so we don't make to much noise, probably we're the only
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Day
7, 8 and 9: Val
de Galbe :
there
still may be plenty of snow in the higher part almost like in
winter but this is June.
Hiking along old almost
forgotten paths on the mountain edge between the Orlu reserve and Val de
Galbe climbing Pic Moustier (2605M) and Pic de Terres (2540) with
their beautiful views.
Peak de la Montagnette (2434M) and back to the
main Camporells lake (2240M) for a day off.
Day 10 and 11: Central Carlit massif :
Walking to Bouillouses lake,
through the Désert du
Carlit (yes it means desert) a wild high upland plane with no
well until Tres Fonts
(the 3 wells) and
Estany de Col Roig lake(2247m).
Through
Col Roig pass if snow as melted enough along Peak Oriental de Col Roig
to
Peak Carlit (2971M) and down to Estany Forcats (2457M) lake.
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Day 12, 13 und 14 hiking Northern part of the Lanous
reserve. Across the
barrage ( 2300M) and
Col de Lanos (2468M) back to Estany de la Coume d'Or (2466M).
Climbing of Peak de Coume
d'Or (2826M) , Lake Besines (1980M) and back to Hospitalet.
Pyrenees Guide service:
Basic cost :
Basic cost is 75€ a day
(single participant), +50€ a day (2nd participant), + 30€ a day (3rd
participant), + 20€ a day (4th and next participants).
For legal reasons you
need to become a member (membership fee is included).
Membership conditions
Included : guiding, hiking tents, cookers, sleeping
mats
Not included :
other gear, food
and travel costs.
When
staying in huts the guide's costs (board and
lodging) are yours, this is usual.
When needed :
some
single person tents, rucksacks and sleeping bags are available and can be
hired (2€ per overnight each) Leader : Richard van
Egdom. experienced and certified mountain leader, lives in the Pyrenees knows
them as the back of his hand. Contact him
in time check available dates now :
Richard
Practical information : Tips for a lighter Rucksack, how to get to the
Pyrenees, more about us,
click here
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This website is the international
Pyrenees mountains information website of Vriendenkring Amitié Européenne
asbl a Belgian small is beatifull non profit association.
Our other websites are:
www.pyrenees.be for more
information in French. This website also contains a 2 weeks trail
description, an alternative high route through the French and Andorran
Pyrenees.
Similar information in Dutch about our
Pyrenees house, family holidays, guided treks and extended information on
our mountain retreat is on
www.pyrenees-pyreneeen.be
As you may guess we cannot earn the
necessary money to run our organization, the house, our Pyrenees trekking and hikes
only through membership fees.
That's why since 2003 we joined in
DialoguE, according to The Wall Street Journal one of the best European
language schools, to provide high level crash courses Dutch
for executive
managers and the higher educated.
A special website in German dedicated to this Dutch courses
for the higher educated is
www.sprachkursniederlaendisch.de
Same information to our French full immersion private Dutch
courses can be found on
www.apprendre-le-neerlandais.com
responsible editor :
Richard
van
Egdom
office & contact :
Lutiau 53, B-6500 Beaumont
Friends of the Pyrenees House for your
selcatering Pyrenees holiday rental or Pyrenees trekking : Le
Castel, F-09400 Miglos
phone +32 60 456 497
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