This stage between Dès and Aubisque passes through one of the wildest areas of the valley. The track is not always easy to find and is not very often used by hikers, but the pleasure of being away from the world is worth the trip alone. For experienced hikers only.

As you walk in the mountains, you may come across “Basco-Béarnaise” dairy ewes on the pastures, with their curved noses and spiral horns. You might also see a few “Pyrénéenne” goats with long black and white silky coats. On their heels, a Pyrenean sheepdog, a little ball of golden, wavy fluff, who responds to the finger and eye of his master. Of the same size and colour as the ewes, the Pyrenean mountain dog proudly guards its flock. Beware of his bite! The black pigs around the huts in summer, which one could mistake for wild boars, are “Gascons”. Further on, beautiful cows graze peacefully, the “Blondes des Pyrénées”, queens of the summer pastures, with their heads adorned with huge horns in the shape of a lyre.