This side of the Pyrenees Occidental foothills are a semi dessert. I love this kind of scenery. It reminds me of Utah. This is a gently rolling dessert summit with far views of the high ridges of the Pyrenees, and all the geology in between. Considering the surroundings, this summit is surprisingly high. - Little to no traffic - Road is regular width.
The road climbs through brush forest onto bare outcrops. Periodically far vistas over all the layer cake rocks to the north open up. They draw the eye to the wall of white teeth in the distance, the Pyrenean main ridges. To the south another dry ridge, the Montsec d'Ares is foreshortend into a wall by the afternoon light, getting flatter by the second, due to hazy afternoon clouds. That's okay. It is amazingly hot here on this 23rd of May, and maybe some clouds will help. The highest part of the road comes during a forested section. There are no views from there. From East. But just
one turn takes the little road reaches the actual
signed collado, which is a little lower than the
summit point. From there the entire valley and
various limestone ridges, outcrops and
multifaceted landforms surrounding Tremp, appear
in a grand vista. Unfortunately the light did not
cooperate for good photographs. The way down has
lots of tight turns, and every once in a while
there is a car coming in the other direction, just
when you don't expect it. So always expect it !!
A Dayride with this point as intermediate summit is on page: Collado de Creu de Perves |
