Cresta le Poirier
Loop Walk
500
XP
about 3 h 5 min walking
908 m
644 m
379 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
536 m
Drop
532 m
Highest
872 m
Lowest
391 m
Walking time
about 3 h 5 min
Which way round
Clockwise: Climbs 26% for 1080 m early on, comes down 22% for 730 m midway.
Anticlockwise: Climbs 22% for 730 m early on, comes down 26% for 1080 m near the end.
Better clockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.9 km at 10%+, 1.9 km of it 15%+) and come down 1.3 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main descent: km 6.1–9.0, from 837 m to 486 m.
How the 11.0 km splits
Flat
1.6 km
Climbing
1.7 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.9 km
Descending
4.4 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.3 km
Very steep descending (15%+)
1.0 km