Circuit des Buis
Loop Walk
450
XP
about 3 h 16 min walking
511 m
342 m
173 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
337 m
Drop
342 m
Highest
382 m
Lowest
216 m
Walking time
about 3 h 16 min
Which way round
Anticlockwise: Easy first 4.1 km, climbs 17% for 750 m near the end, comes down 13% for 780 m midway.
Clockwise: Climbs 13% for 780 m midway, comes down 17% for 750 m early on.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1 km at 10%+, 0.8 km of it 15%+) and come down 0.8 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 10.4–11.7, from 220 m to 365 m.
How the 13.5 km splits
Flat
3.5 km
Climbing
3.9 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.2 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
0.8 km
Descending
4.4 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
0.8 km