le Sentier des Papillons
Loop Walk
300
XP
about 1 h 39 min walking
1848 m
1744 m
1640 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
245 m
Drop
247 m
Highest
1834 m
Lowest
1645 m
Walking time
about 1 h 38 min
Which way round
Clockwise: Climbs 15% for 290 m midway, comes down 16% for 700 m midway.
Anticlockwise: Climbs 16% for 700 m midway, comes down 15% for 290 m early on.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1 km at 10%+, 0.7 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.6 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 2.5–4.3, from 1648 m to 1834 m.
How the 6.2 km splits
Flat
0.6 km
Climbing
1.4 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.3 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.7 km
Descending
2.5 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.6 km
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