The Butcombe Trail
Loop Walk · Somerset
1,500
XP
a 3-day route
600 m
300 m
0 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
1508 m
Drop
1506 m
Highest
315 m
Lowest
6 m
Walking time
about 17 h 19 min
A 3-day route, walked in stages. 1,500 XP for the whole route, claimed with a photo from it.
Which way round
Clockwise: Easy first 2.3 km, climbs 12% for 600 m near the end, comes down 15% for 780 m near the end.
Anticlockwise: Easy first 3.9 km, climbs 15% for 780 m early on, comes down 12% for 600 m early on.
Better anticlockwise: you climb the steeper side (1.8 km at 10%+, 1.3 km of it 15%+) and come down 1.6 km of steep ground. Steep descents are where people slip, and they're harder on knees late in a walk.
Main climb: km 51.4–56.0, from 11 m to 260 m.
How the 74.0 km splits
Flat
33.9 km
Climbing
18.4 km
Steep climbing (10–15%)
0.5 km
Very steep climbing (15%+)
1.3 km
Descending
18.4 km
Steep descending (10–15%)
1.6 km
Link it with other walks
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Limestone Link
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Hutton Millenium Walk
Shares 1.4 km of path · meets at km 34.110.31 km
Monarch's Way
Shares 0.6 km of path · meets at km 9.0, 9.1, 64.7…920.73 km
Green Trail
Shares 0.2 km of path · meets at km 65.51.11 km