Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin
Key facts
- Distance
- 7.0 km
- Ascent
- +233 m
- Descent
- −237 m
- Estimated time
- 2 hr 05
- hiking
- Difficulty
- Not rated
- Route
- Loop
- back to the start
Profile and gradient
- under 10%
- 10 to 20%
- over 20%
Gradient along the route: 5.6 km under 10% and 1.4 km at 10 to 20%. Elevation from 1,197 m to 1,397 m over 7.0 km.
Difficulty
No official rating for this track: we do not make one up.
Getting there
Start: Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise (63).
Sources
- Track: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL 1.0 (www.openstreetmap.org/relation/11201979). Time estimated by GPX Path with the Mac app rule, breaks not included.
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