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ESPARROS
LA CASCADE D'ESPARROS
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Une courte et rafraîchissante balade vers une cascade sauvage au milieu des mousses et lichens.Remarks : Access: to the village of Esparros take to the party hall towards the "Cascade du Pountilh". Follow a road for 1.5 km then park right at the first hairpin bend. Parking on the roadside.
The pedestrian access is on the left.Recommendations : Avoid in wet weather (slippery parts and difficulties crossing the stream). Provide crampon shoes.
Characteristics
Distance
0.4 Km
Duration
| Estimated time : 0H20 |
Steps
| 1 | Departure from the Cascade car park. Take the signposted path down in the middle of hazelnuts, mosses and ferns. Halfway down, on the right a cave dominates the path (Warning, do not climb, the access is dangerous), continue down the path to reach the stream of the "Artigaou". |
| 2 | Crossing it by a passage often playful and refreshing to watch or in the water, it is according to! This stream once fed several mills downstream. |
| 3 | Up the creek to quickly reach the foot of the waterfall. At a height of several tens of meters, it dominates the valley of the Artigaou and the village of Esparros. The rock is particular: tuff or travertine. It is formed by deposition of limestone on vegetation (such as mosses or algae), at the emergence of certain springs or streams or water with small waterfalls. Limestone carbonate precipitates due to the action of plants and water eddies and forms a sponge-like rock. The waterfall is covered with moss and lichens. |
| 4 | The return is done by the same path. |