pyrenean Way - GR10

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A walk for all seasons. 1000m climbing. 6 hours walking. GPS file

Thanks to Anne-Marie, who organised it. A circular walk on the first snows of the year (in January!). We left the cars at Villefranche de Conflent station and caught the Petit Train Jaune (the little yellow train as it is affectionately known) to Joncet. Once there, a steep climb zig-zagging up the hillside took us to the hamlet of Flassa and a pre-Romanesque chapel dedicated to Saint Marcel (11th century).

 

Unfortunately the chapel was shut. So we turned round and continued our climb up to the soulane (the sunny side of the mountain) overlooking the valley.

Lunch was in the Roquefumade hut (clean, could sleep 4, plenty of wood nearby). Then we followed the “Vauban Path” through the Coronat forest.

Canigou should have been visible on the opposite side of the valley but it was hidden in cloud.

We visited another hut on the way down to Villefranche, at Saint-Étienne de Campilles – it’s always useful to know what they are like. This one was also clean but could only sleep 2.

Past Fort Libéria and back down to Villefranche-de-Conflent.

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