Looking for the Bauma del Corneta

The Alta Garrotxa is a place with dense forests and rocky areas that hide many interesting and surprising places. One of this places is the Bauma del Corneta (Cornett Player Cave), hidden at the eastern face of the El Ferran (983m) and over the Oix and Llierca Gorges. The trail starts just before the Pont Trencat (Broken Beach), but it's difficult to reach with a regular car, and often it is impossible if you don't have a four wheel drive car. The original idea was to climb El Ferran summit while visiting the cave, but we missed the way that led to the cave and, once we reached the Coll de Terres, we decided to take the trail to the cave. We had lunch there. In the meantime, a shy Wallcreeper visited us. We decided to follow the trail that went down to the gorges, hoping to find a way to go back to our cars. The trail to the gorges was great, with fantastic views over the valley. Once we reached the gorges, we realized that there was no way back to our cars, so we had to climb back the 300m elevation gain to the Coll de la Bassa and take the known trail to the cars through the Santa Maria de les Escales hermitage.

Even if you have to walk back the trail, going to the gorge is a nice walk, that leads you to a really unknown place of the area. We are sure that there has to be a way to reach the Pont Trencat from the gorges, so we will keep exploring it.

You can see a picture galery of this route clicking at the link http://picasaweb.google.es/dani.valverde/BaumaDelCorneta?feat=directlink .