Grande Traversée du Vercors - Balcon Est
Linear Trail
650
XP
about 5 h 24 min walking
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.
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