Recreating Hemingway's Trip to Pamplona (Part 1)

Recreating Hemingway's Trip to Pamplona (Part 1)

10/5/2016 2:27:47 AM

Well, I’ve tried a bounty and that didn’t work (so far, I’m impatient), so here is my guess:

Near Aribe at 42°56’25.93″N 1°16’26.78″W :

Dam
(Courtesy Google Earth).

There is a different view here for the moment, by Uranzu, described as Río Irati. Marked “Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike” I dare not upload it but since Panoramio is closing this is my excuse for impatience.

It is clearly something than spans the river and there seems nothing else in that area that does (other than bridges).

The “hypothetical” image is in my opinion extremely attractive but extremely unlikely to be representative of what is being sought because of walked out onto the dam. It was built to provide a head of water for driving logs and hence even if downstream of a dam this does not look nearly deep enough. Anyway, the Irati river in this area is much more substantial.

I am guessing that even after a century something a solid as a dam to hold back water for logs would leave some trace, even if constructed of wood.

The route may have been what is today NA-140/NA-2040, but as Google Maps shows, there is a viable alternative:

Aribe

@Dorothy has found what seems the relevant Fishing pilgrimage in the footsteps of Ernest Hemingway by Yvon ZILL. This image from there:

Hemingway

is sandwiched between the text:

“We have to follow this road along the ridge, cross these hills, go through the woods on the far hills, and come down to the Irati valley,” I pointed out to Bill.

and

The road came out from the shadow of the woods into the hot sun. Ahead was a river-valley. Beyond the river was a steep hill. There was a field of buckwheat on the hill. We saw a white house under some trees on the hillside. It was very hot and we stopped under some trees beside a dam that crossed the river.

Judging by this map (courtesy Google):

Map

The photograph may have been taken from somewhere around the bottom left corner facing towards the top right (Aribe). The dam being marked with the line across the river and the white house under some trees on the hillside being the Baños de Aribe shown in this video.

Credit:stackoverflow.com‘

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