le Tour du Mont Besset
Loop Walk
500
XP
about 2 h 56 min walking
1169 m
961 m
753 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
410 m
Drop
409 m
Highest
1141 m
Lowest
762 m
Walking time
about 2 h 56 min
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 4.8 km, climbs 16% for 650 m midway, comes down 13% for 500 m midway.
Clockwise: Climbs 13% for 500 m midway, comes down 16% for 650 m early on.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.9 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 climb: km 4.8–10.4, from 767 m to 1139 m.
How the 11.2 km splits
Flat
1.9 km
Climbing
2.3 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.5 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.4 km
Descending
4.4 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.5 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
0.2 km
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