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| Day 5: To Refugi de Colomers |
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Each day's route is shown by a red track with yellow highlight.
On "loop" days, our return trip is a blue track with yellow highlight.
Starting and ending Refugios are marked in yellow, while lunch spots are marked by a blue circle (since map areas overlap, several may be shown). « Previous | Route Index | Next » |
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The hiking was much easier on our fifth day, with a beautiful path taking us across grassy knolls and only one tough
ascent on snow.
We enjoyed a serene lunch at the Port de Caldes (+300-350m), the pass that led from the valley we had been in to the one punctuated
by Colomers. At this lunch, we played "spot the vulture(s) flying overhead". Specifically, what appeared to be
Egyptian vultures with 3m wingspans. Mehmet was heard to remark "Yowsa!". If you secretly want to be a vulture,
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We arrived at Colomers at around 4:00 p.m., having covered about 6km. After briefly availing ourselves of "the
facilities" -- described by Mehmet as "interesting" and George as "practically an
act of bioterrorism" -- we all enjoyed a fine San Miguel beer. We also spent some time with a cute dog, an antsy
butterfly (a jumpy target for Christina's photography attempts), and a lizard.
We had a nice dinner and then strolled across the dam to watch the sunset. When the sky refused to provide any
particularly brilliant display of colours, we instead explored some interesting stone installations perched above us.
Our best guess was that they might date to the Spanish Civil War and the guerilla forces fighting from the mountains.
Mike and Anatole watched an impressive lightning storm and mused about nature and beauty before joining the others for sleep.
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