Bagergue Montgarri per Montoliu - Montgarri Bagergue per Pla de Beret
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 21.69 mi
- Elevation gain
- 4,708 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 4,708 ft
- Max elevation
- 8,165 ft
- TrailRank
- 52
- Min elevation
- 4,621 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- one day 2 hours 32 minutes
- Coordinates
- 2653
- Uploaded
- August 30, 2013
- Recorded
- August 2013
near Bagerque, Catalunya (España)
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Itinerary description
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We leave Bagergue and go to the north, immediately we leave the asphalt to go along the track of Sta Margalida, which despite making a little back offers us a more pleasant terrain for us. We climb to the hermitage and return to the main track.
After passing the cows, we take the Liat track to the right. We walk parallel to the Unhola River, also known as the Riu Vermell. We continue along until the moment we pass to the height that the mentioned river saves the difference with a pair of jumps worthy of being contemplated.
We continue to the point where we leave the track to take the path that leads to Lake Montoliu and the hill of the same name. Here the path is narrow and drawn above a stone rock that demands a safe climb of the cavalcaduras. We move along an elevated mountain skirt, gaining height by the scrub until reaching a small plain where the meadows begin.
We go up the well-marked path to Lake Montoliu. On the lake we cool the legs of our horses with the water glazed and continue up to the neck.
From Coll de Montoliu we can contemplate the steep gradient that we will have to lower to go to Montgarri following more or less the route of the first stream Arriu de Vernatar, and below Arriu below Horcath. It is a terrain of high mountain meadows with eroded paths and quite well defined that they drain down.
Below we cross the river and take a narrow path that leads to Es Cabau, where we take the wide track to Montgarri.
We spent the night in the refuge Amics de Montgarri. The horses rest in chambers under the hazel board next to La Noguera Pallaresa.
The next day we drop off from the track of the previous day to go down the western side of the Noguera Pallaresa towards Bagergue. It is a very foggy day and we can not contemplate the views of the mountains that surround us from Pla de Beret. We intend to go to Baix de Baciver lake, but bad visibility helps us to decide to go directly to our starting point following the GR 211, which borders the busy road without practically seeing it.
We arrived at Bagergue following GR marks without any difficulty.
It is a route with the difficulties of the high mountains. There is some delicate step for the narrowing of the paths that skirt the slopes of the mountains with a lot of slope.
At the Seixes de Bagergue hotel (973 64 54 06 www.seixes.com), we have been able to contact people from the village that have Prats and grass for horses.
Waypoints
Mountain hut
4,666 ft
BAGERGUE
Town from where we go At Hotel Seixes we have been given the opportunity to have a nearby Prat to mount paddocks for horses. Hotel Seixos T. 973 64 54 06 and 660 69 89 50 seixes@seixes.com www.seixes.com
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Religious site
Waterfall
6,087 ft
SALT RIU VERMELL
The Unhola River saves the unevennesses with precious jumps. We call it Rio Vermello because it is much easier to remember, and often people know it with that name. They say that Liat's iron makes this color.
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Waterfall
6,048 ft
SALT RIU VERMELL II
This second jump is almost attached to the first, it is difficult to contemplate without running into danger of falling into the void.
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Mountain pass
8,164 ft
COLL DE MONTOLIU
It allows you to contemplate the unevenness that must be saved until it reaches Montgarri which is below all! Here begins the descent on the east side of the mountain.
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Lake
7,791 ft
Llac Montoliu
The Lake is in an unbeatable environment, under the Tuc de Montoliu and the Mauberme. In 2013, in the month of August there were a lot of snow congestion that served to refresh the sheep that grazed the Prats.
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