76) Tourettes

On both sides of the pass separating Pic des Tourettes (2,635 m) and the ridge descending from Gabieto Norte, this glacier was located, held together by a strip of ice in the aforementioned pass.
In conditions similar to those described when describing the Taillón Norte Glacier, its horizontal development during the Little Ice Age was remarkable. Its headwall width of 1.3 km was the second largest in the massif after the Casco-Brecha de Roland Glacier, and the sixth largest in the Pyrenees. Its area of 30 ha placed it among the 25 largest glaciers in the mountain range.
Between 1982 and 1985, it was already fragmented into two units, classified as heleros. Like all the other glaciers on the northern slope of the Taillón-Gabietos sector, the process of deterioration has been evident in recent decades. The fragment located to the east of the pass (76-1) became residual in 2017, with the existence of glacial ice in doubt, another new split and a reduced area.
The snowfields that persisted almost every summer at the location of the fragment (76-2) made observation difficult. Although well fed by snow from the Gabietos wall, it did not manage to maintain its ice condition for much longer, becoming residual and the whole mass was considered extinct in 2019.
The Tourettes glacier was always considered part of the Occitan glacial system, although in reality this pass marks the border, so one of its fragments (76-2) also occupied Aragonese territory in the Bujaruelo Valley. However, to avoid confusion, for cataloguing purposes, this glacial apparatus has been considered as belonging to the Occitan slope.