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March 24th, 2011 | Written by Simon Rice|
Early Autumn brought warm weather to the Catalan Pyrenees - ideal for walking high in the mountains north of the Parc Nacional d’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici, where Lucky is prohibited from running free. Access to this high glacial valley is easy as the entrance is near to the Port de la Bonaigua pass, which seperates the vally of the Noguera Pallaresa from the Vall d’Aran - the anomalous region, which, being on the northern watershed of the mountains, would otherwise be in France.
That’s not to say it is an easy ride, however, as tthe Vall de Gerber is a hanging valley and the start of the walk passes through dense forest and some scrabbling was required - but it was all good practice for seeking wild fruit! The Catalan for raspberries is ‘gerds’ and they were so prolific that I wondered if the name ‘Gerber’ was linked - I doubt it though!
Soon we reached the glacial valley proper, with a delighful tarn on the edge of the forest - and the precipice - the sound of the nearby cascade was deafening after the solitude of the woods.
But we persevered, Lucky and I. In dog years she’s in her ’seventies’ and it was saddening to find that she’d lost some of her zeal since we had last walked seriously in Spring - before being grounded by the summer heat. But she was bouncy as ever when it came to games of hide and seek among the striated rocks - the scars left by passing glaciers - that strew the valley floor.
Surrounded by high peaks such as the 2656 m Tuc de Locampo (centre) the main tarn, or estany, was a welcome sight when we finally got there - that pure water was irrrsistible!
Refreshed, we headed home . . .
Not forgetting the gerds, which came in handy for bribing the Car Park Security!
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