Lake Arou

The Lac of Arou is a Lac the Pyrenees.

Situation: valley of Quatre-Véziaux - Hautes-Pyrénées (65) altitude: 1786 m

Level:

Easy; 2:00 for confirmed, 2:30 for the beginners.

Chart IGN 1:50 000 = Campan (sheet XVII-47)

Chart IGN 1:25 000 = Néouvielle - Valley of Aure (sheet 276)

Route of access

  • Since Tarbes, to pass Bagnères de Bigorre, Campan and Sainte-Marie de Campan. To take the direction of the Collar of Aspin, to pass Seoube and to arrive at Payolle.

  • has Payolle, to go close to the lake, empreinter the forest road of Hourquette and to climb until the Hourquette d' Ancizan. To park the car close to the coll

  • the path slightly below starts Hourquette, direction south-western. It is well marked and visible, and court with mountainside, practically with the horizontal one. Many sources mark out the route.

After one hour and half of quiet walk, a small coast leads to a first small lake with the altitude of 1745 Mr. Franchir the brook on the bridge, then to climb left bank a last a little hard rise; in half an hour approximately, one arrives at the Lake Arou.

  • With the lake, a source spouts out of a hole of rock, with the outcrop of water, on the west coast.

  • If it is arrived early the morning, one can see some Marmotte S and, if one is quiet, of the Vautour S deer posed on the ground. Sometimes, the horses in freedom in the bottom of the solid mass of Arbizon come to drink with the lake with the foalta of the year (attention to the sometimes impulsive standards, because they are animals semi-savages).

See too

  • List of the lakes of the Pyrenees

External bonds

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