Circuit de la Butte de Taloison
Loop Walk
300
XP
about 1 h 56 min walking
498 m
398 m
297 m
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Heights: Copernicus DEM GLO-30 © DLR e.V. 2010–2014 and © Airbus Defence and Space GmbH 2014–2018, provided under COPERNICUS by the European Union and ESA.
Hilly walk
2 steep stretches — marked on the map.
Climb
203 m
Drop
197 m
Highest
442 m
Lowest
316 m
Walking time
about 1 h 56 min
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 3.7 km, climbs 12% for 250 m midway, comes down 13% for 700 m near the end.
Clockwise: Climbs 13% for 700 m early on, comes down 12% for 250 m midway.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.7 km at 10%+) and come down 0.3 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 2.3–4.3, from 442 m to 317 m.
How the 8.0 km splits
Flat
2.0 km
Climbing
2.4 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.7 km
Descending
2.6 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.3 km