Thursday 20/03/2008 (6:00)
is not a mistake, is Thursday, and do not work .... As promised, and today we are making Bastiments. After two weekends of drought (in terms of walking), and using both Sergi as I do not have to work, we will Vallter2000 from which to start our first march mountain this year.
At 6 am we left Mataró Vallter2000 direction, stopping to make a coffee at Sant Joan de les Abadesses.
's 8 am and we are in the car park at the foot of the ski lift ski Vallter2000. The car thermometer mark 6 degrees below zero, but when you open the door a gale, and when I say strong is very strong, while it cost to open the door, shows the strength with which we are going to have to face, but with the hope the wind dies down, and let us enjoy the wonderful sun does.
started walking along the GR 11 which exits the bottom of the car, heading south in search of an intersection a few meters, where we take a road NW to get back to GR11 above the parking, but happy path is well covered by snow, and after 1 hour of walking, we decided to take the car and go 200 meters down the road, where to park the car and take the GR11 directly.
's 10 am and get going back to the GR11, Ulldeter toward the shelter. It did not take long to start the landscaping freak snow and take pictures, but by hand, we realize that we will need the granpones, which we have not brought.
arrived at the shelter and continue through the RM runs parallel to the ski slope, where we met a skier going up the ski slope (which they do save some for the pass) but we soon realize that the skier's destination was not the beginning of the track, but come to the Sow Coll. just like ours. Since the beginning
top of the ski slope, we see a group of four up to Coll de la Sow, which gives us courage, because we are treading the snow where we go, and we think that we facilitate promotion. But on reaching the foot of the Coll discovered that the footprints in the snow will not suffice, we get the poles to help, but even so, the steep, ice zones and the extremely strong wind, put us in trouble on several occasions. After 1 hour since we started walking, we got to the Sow Coll.
From here we went to coll Bastiments, but before we seek a refuge where the extremely strong wind to eat something.
Fortunately from Coll of the Sow to the Coll de Bastiments, snowy areas are minimal, and the only thing that makes the ride is the wind, which causes us a very strong feeling cold.
After overcoming a steep slope with a gradient of + - 50%, we arrive at the Coll de Bastiments, where we find clapas ice snow, which added an even stronger wind, we make it very difficult to 300 meters we are to reach the peak. We move very cautiously, trying to ensure each step we take, coming to have to stand up and nail the sticks on the ice until the wind dies down a bit. And, step by step we got to the Pic de Bastiments. We take the required pictures, and decided to take the mountain down through, for the pan, and go back to Coll is a big risk. The decline of the pie is not a path of flowers, the loose stones are a trap for our ankles, and added to the damn wind that never ceases to blow, we suffer several stumble, but if too much importance.
half an hour we are looking at how to tackle the decline in coll of the Sow, the road we had uploaded is too uneven, and the snow has hardened a lot. We decided to go down a path a little further south, which appears to just under the snow slope and softer. But we soon realize that this road is snow so hard that it is almost impossible to nail boots and poles, there are even areas with ice. The fear of falling and low-slope skating, extreme make us a lot every step we take, and try to go find areas where there are gaps in some steps.
finally got down the slope without suffering any mishaps Coll. From here we return to the shelter of Ulldeter and from this the car. They
14:00 pm when we reached the car. We have taken four hours to go all out and have some hunger. Try to eat near the car, but as the wind that has accompanied us throughout the morning, continues to accompany us now and we decided to jump on the car and go to Setcases to eat.
Who sows the wind shall reap the whirlwind (I think we have picked up wind to the remains.)
Regards and until the next
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