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la Chaulme-Montarcher

Loop Walk

450

XP

about 3 h 12 min walking

13.07 km
Loop
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1285 m

1122 m

959 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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Steep walk

Some very steep ground — marked on the map.

Climb

349 m

Drop

352 m

Highest

1194 m

Lowest

989 m

Walking time

about 3 h 12 min

Which way round

Anticlockwise: Easy first 5.3 km, climbs 14% for 700 m midway, comes down 16% for 350 m midway.

Clockwise: Easy first 5.6 km, climbs 16% for 350 m midway, comes down 14% for 700 m midway.

Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (0.9 km at 10%+, 0.9 km of it 15%+) and come down 1 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.

Main climb: km 7.8–10.2, from 989 m to 1160 m.

How the 13.1 km splits

Flat

3.3 km

Climbing

4.0 km

Very steep climbing (15%+)

0.9 km

Descending

4.0 km

Steep descending (10–15%)

0.9 km

Campsites near the start

Camping Narcissus

5.1 km from the start · 4.4★ (86)

Camping Municipal Le Pradoux

6.2 km from the start · 4.6★ (51)

Camping municipal Rambaud

6.8 km from the start · 4.4★ (61)

Les Chalets du Haut-Forez

8.2 km from the start · 4.5★ (249)

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