Puigsacalm des de la Collada de Bracons

Garrett had a new idea since he doesn't like to write emails. Sometimes he sends us voice messages on messenger so I am going to transcribe the messages and put them on his blog to hopefully have more documentation of his mission experiences. I will also try to include pictures if he provides them. Maybe I should also type up things we talked about in our phone conversations. We'll see. 

August 19, 2024

Garrett is now serving in a town in the mountains called Vic. He is happy to be in the mountains and found a hike to do on his P-Day called Puigsacalm des de la Collada de Bracons (Puigsacalm from the Collada de Bracons). 

Here is some information Tony sent to Garrett:

Transcription from Garrett's voice message:

"Here's the thing that's interesting, 'cause we were following the trail really good and then we started running so we weren't really focusing too much on what the map said. Then we saw these other people coming down and I'm like I'll just ask the really quick how to get to the top. They pointed roughly to where to go. But it was weird because they pointed in the complete opposite direction. So we got to the ridge and we needed to turn to the left to get to Puigsacalm but then we ended up turning to the right because that's where the dude pointed and then we went to the peak called Puig Tosell Gros which was really close to where we started and we basically just took the long way to get there and then we took the long way back so we could go pick up the sister missionaries. So we weren't really lost but once we got to the ridge we did not follow the trail whatsoever.

I think this is the map Tony gave Garrett. It shows how many trails are up there so navigation could get tricky.

Transcription from Garrett:

"The trail was super well marked and there is a bunch of red marking on the rocks on the side of the trail so it wasn't really that hard, it was just weird that the dude that we asked pointed to the complete opposite direction when we asked him."

The red line is the route Garrett took. The were originally aiming for Puigsacalm, which is off to right a little bit.

Transcription from Garrett:

"Kind of crazy, so it would have been a whole lot easier just to do a big loop and to keep on going straight when we got to that one peak but we had to go back and get the sisters so we could make sure they got back alright. So, it could have been a cool loop but just with the sisters and everything it made it a little bit more complicated and is just ended up being a very, very long, confusing out and back."

The red circle is where they originally wanted to go. The red line is their actual route. The white circle is where the guy told them to go right when they should have gone left.