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File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060018.JPG | Approach road
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060018.JPG | Approach road
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060019.JPG | A dry riverbed we would get to know better
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060019.JPG | A dry riverbed we would get to know better
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060018.JPG | There were footpaths... still.
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File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060021.JPG | There were footpaths... still.
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060022.JPG | And stairs!
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060022.JPG | And stairs!
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060026.JPG | More paths.
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060026.JPG | More paths.
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060028.JPG | Then, the river. We followed this riverbed for about 1.5km.
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060028.JPG | Then, the river. We followed this riverbed for about 1.5km.
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060026.JPG | With a few exceptions, where the river was too cluttered.
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File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060030.JPG | With a few exceptions, where the river was too cluttered.
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060031.JPG | 250m to go, no "road" visible nowhere.  
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060031.JPG | 250m to go, no "road" visible nowhere.  
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060032.JPG | Back down, 150m to go, it got dark, and we despaired.
 
File:2010-05-05-44-4-P1060032.JPG | Back down, 150m to go, it got dark, and we despaired.

Revision as of 23:07, 12 May 2010

Wed 5 May 2010 in 44,4:
44.1295687, 4.0390298
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Location

As in a text message from Danatar:

Wed 5.5.: 44 4 is 3km W from Ales (cathedral!) between the villages St-jean-du-pin and Auzas in the forest next to the road.

Participants

Plans

Plans? We did not even have a map!

Expedition

  • We followed the signage to Alès, which is a decently sized town.
  • From there on, we followed compass directions to the hash.
  • Our first approaches ended at private driveways about 3.1km from the hash.
  • The final approach is the road of the common wood - cf. the google map view in the tracklog section
  • From there, it was just 1.2km, and there were paths through the forest
  • ...which ended at the river.
  • ...so we followed the river.
  • It meandered, as rivers like to do, so we took a few shortcuts through the brambles.
  • Southern French undergrowth is pretty dense, as there is not much overgrowth to steal the sun.
  • We approached the hash with every step, but we could not see the road Danatar mentioned, and it got dark quickly.
  • We aborted the mission about 150m from the hash, when we would have had to leave the riverbed (again) to climb a steep cliff through more brambles.

Tracklog

http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?hl=en&ie=UTF8&t=h&msa=0&ll=44.12987,4.042025&spn=0.007046,0.016512&z=17&msid=114537174518825253289.0004864d80ac60e116772

Photos