moderate
Distance: 72km Unevenness: 1860m
Moving from Arette to Aspe Valley is to see how the smoothed pastoral landscape of the “Pais Basque” fades, and how another similar one comes but in wild version. Here it "smells" already to Pyrenees Central.
Saying Aspe Valley is for us something similar to saying Shangri-La.
And despite the cross-border highway that runs through the valley and the recent works for the start-up of the old railway between Oloron and Bedous. At the end, our territories are the slopes. The Valley bottom on these routes is a mere formality to begin another ascent.
Itinerarie: Arette D341 - Lie - Lourdios - D441 - Bouezou D442 - Osse-en-Aspe D237 - N134 - D238 - Escot D294 - Marie-Blanque - Escot D238 - N134 - D918 - Arette
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Paisaje estándar en el Valle de Aspe. Alrededores de Lourdios-Ichere.
Suaves llaneos en altura entre las cotas de Bouesou y Houtarade
Espectacular descenso hacia Bedous
Curiosidad geológica en el horizonte, entre las nubes encima de Accous se esconde el Col d´Iseye donde la placa tectónica ibérica se hunde bajo la placa euroasiática.
Lées Athas, una de las poblaciones que encontraremos en la parte baja del valle.
We are where we are, in the Atlantic Pyrenees, with a plain to the North with localities at very low altitude and ports that are close to the 2000m range.
The southern slope is more "human", towns are in a higher altitude and the slopes are not so important.
The vast majority of the routes cover the ports of the "greats": Issarbe, La Piedra de St Martin, Laberouat, Bagargi, Artaburu, Arnostegi, Ahuski, Larrau...with slopes ranging between 1000 and 1700 meters. Some routes ascent one of these ports, others 2 or 3 and even more.
We anticipated this so the criteria are clear for each 6 levels that we have chosen for the ranking of the routes.