Area: French Pyrenees
Walk: Loudenvielle - Germ - Val d'Aube - Cabane d'Ourtiga - Couret d'Esquierry (2,131m) - Cabane du Val d'Esquierry - les Granges d'Astau
Distance: 9.0 miles 4,000ft ascent
With: Exodus trekking group
Conditions: Broken cloud until lunch, then overcast with rain showers. Windy at times in the morning
Time: 7 hours
Water spout into a water trough, Loudenvielle
Looking back down on Loudenvielle from the climb up to the village
of Germ
The view south
Barn
Lac de Genos-Loudenvielle from the ascent. Our descent yesterday
had been through the woods on the other side of the valley (left
side of photo)
Heading along a track above Germ
Looking back down on Loudenvielle and Lac de Genos-Loudenvielle
Val d'Aube and our col (Couret d'Esquierry), the low point on the
skyline
Heading up Val d'Aube
View south from Cabane d'Ourtiga (lunch)
Heading up to Couret d'Esquierry
Couret d'Esquierry (2,131m / 6,990ft)
Leaving the col, in the rain
...and looking back up from the descent
Cabane du Val d'Esquierry
Looking south, tomorrow's route
Descending steeply through the wood
...down to les Granges d'Astau and our gite for the night
Looking back up to our descent route
...and the way we head tomorrow