Boucle du Soust
Loop Walk
400
XP
about 2 h 27 min walking
455 m
336 m
218 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.
Steep walk
Some very steep ground — marked on the map.
Climb
328 m
Drop
331 m
Highest
403 m
Lowest
235 m
Walking time
about 2 h 27 min
Which way round
Clockwise: Easy first 3.2 km, climbs 17% for 720 m midway, comes down 13% for 300 m midway.
Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.9 km, climbs 13% for 300 m early on, comes down 17% for 720 m midway.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.2 km at 10%+, 1.2 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.5 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 0.0–3.2, from 402 m to 235 m.
How the 9.5 km splits
Flat
1.3 km
Climbing
2.4 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.2 km
Descending
4.1 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.5 km