la Haute Vallée de la Dourbie
Loop Walk
500
XP
about 4 h 5 min walking
883 m
688 m
493 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
574 m
Drop
579 m
Highest
810 m
Lowest
517 m
Walking time
about 4 h 5 min
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 1.1 km, climbs 14% for 250 m early on, comes down 15% for 520 m midway.
Clockwise: Climbs 15% for 520 m midway, comes down 14% for 250 m near the end.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.8 km at 10%+, 0.6 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.3 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 6.0–8.9, from 518 m to 798 m.
How the 15.6 km splits
Flat
3.3 km
Climbing
3.6 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
1.3 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.6 km
Descending
6.7 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.3 km
Link it with other walks
la Haute Vallée de la Dourbie par la Rougerie
Starts here too · Shares 11.9 km of path · meets at km 7.4, 15.616 km
Causse Bégon et le Tombeau du Géant
Shares 2.9 km of path · meets at km 9.511.97 km
Notre-Dame de la Sentinelle
Shares 1.9 km of path · meets at km 8.54.35 km
Route Forestiére de Brante
Crosses at km 6.6, 8.57.57 km