2650 m ; 17/08/02
The massif of the Gourgs Blancs, similar to the Néouvielle on many aspects, is well much more unknown and wild, because of its length of access, since no road is going higher than 1200m. By Pont de Prat, in the Louron valley, we must walk first to the Soula refuge, before the climb is really beginning. Anyway, what a wonderful place, a bit later. Audacious bet, again: to complete all in one day (more than 2000m of ascent), in order to get the Gourgs Blancs, or more reasonably the Clarabide. Once arrived to the same name's lake, the fear of a storm as early as yesterday made me prefer stop and go back. The rest of the day proved me that I was widely in time, but who knows...
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