Tour du Defens
Loop Walk
400
XP
about 2 h 3 min walking
1038 m
874 m
711 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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Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
294 m
Drop
295 m
Highest
1016 m
Lowest
718 m
Walking time
about 2 h 3 min
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.3 km, climbs 17% for 1350 m early on, comes down 14% for 400 m near the end.
Clockwise: Climbs 14% for 400 m early on, comes down 17% for 1350 m midway.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.4 km at 10%+, 1.4 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.7 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 3.3–7.3, from 1003 m to 721 m.
How the 7.8 km splits
Flat
1.9 km
Climbing
1.3 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.4 km
Descending
2.6 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.7 km