Au Cœur de la Vallée d'Olt
Loop Walk
650
XP
about 5 h 27 min walking
834 m
563 m
293 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
676 m
Drop
682 m
Highest
669 m
Lowest
348 m
Walking time
about 5 h 27 min
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.0 km, climbs 13% for 650 m early on, comes down 14% for 720 m midway.
Clockwise: Climbs 14% for 720 m midway, comes down 13% for 650 m near the end.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.7 km at 10%+, 0.6 km of it 15%+) and come down 1.2 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 6.8–9.7, from 669 m to 418 m.
How the 21.6 km splits
Flat
4.7 km
Climbing
6.3 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
1.1 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.6 km
Descending
7.6 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
1.2 km
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