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Grande Traversée du Vercors - Balcon Est

Linear Trail

650

XP

about 5 h 24 min walking

22.78 km
Linear
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1995 m

1710 m

1425 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

509 m

Drop

591 m

Highest

1719 m

Lowest

1517 m

Walking time

about 5 h 24 min

Which way round

Downhill: Easy first 2.9 km, climbs 21% for 350 m near the end, comes down 17% for 500 m early on.

Uphill: Easy first 2.4 km, climbs 17% for 500 m near the end, comes down 21% for 350 m early on.

Shown as the descent, the way a graded trail like this is ridden — the climb back up is usually the forest road.

Main descent: km 0.0–1.7, from 1718 m to 1575 m.

How the 22.8 km splits

Flat

8.7 km

Climbing

5.7 km

Very steep climbing (15%+)

0.9 km

Descending

6.5 km

Steep descending (10–15%)

0.2 km

Very steep descending (15%+)

0.9 km

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