les Quatre Cols
Loop Walk
500
XP
about 4 h 36 min walking
922 m
698 m
474 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.
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Climb
622 m
Drop
621 m
Highest
891 m
Lowest
484 m
Walking time
about 4 h 36 min
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Climbs 21% for 1030 m midway, comes down 13% for 420 m midway.
Clockwise: Climbs 13% for 420 m midway, comes down 21% for 1030 m midway.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.5 km at 10%+, 1 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.9 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 6.9–9.9, from 570 m to 887 m.
How the 17.8 km splits
Flat
4.4 km
Climbing
4.3 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.5 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.0 km
Descending
6.8 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.9 km
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