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Trail: Around Lauvet d’Ilonse
Sunday Anna and I went to the Valley of TinĂ©e to run along a very scenic trail starting at the nice village of Ilonse. The trail circles around the peak of Lauvet d’Ilonse that can be quickly climbed to enjoy the view over the National Park of Mercantour. Anna close to Col des Fourches (© [...]
Trail: Bousieyas – St Sauveur sur Tinee
At the end of the Month, I will go to Egypt to participate to the Sahara Race, a 250 km self-supported foot race which crosses the Wadi Al-Hitan (Whales Valley) and ends at the Giza Pyramids. A week ago, I did the last long Trail of my preparation for the race. A 60 km trail [...]
Trail: St Jean la Riviere – La Tour – L’Engarvin
If you are looking for a technical Trail with lots of ascents and descents, there are mainy choices within one hour drive from Nice. Sunday I made one that is a perfect training and test for an Ultra endurance race. It crossed 3 valleys: Vésubie, Tinée and Paillon, 5 passes (Cols) for a total of [...]
Alpinism: Tavels West face – Left Gully
Anna and I went to the Cime of Tavels (2795 m) to climb the left Gully of the West face (Goulotte Ouest de gauche), one of the 3 ice and mixed routes of Tavels. The routes is 250 meters high (6 pitches), graded French TD / 85° 4+ / M4. It was cold -16°C. The [...]
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Ice climbing: Cascade Gialorgues
We climbed the left ice fall (Cascade) of Gialorgues but the conditions were far from good: the ice fall is not well formed, rather thin and fragile with running water underneath. The temperature of -7 degrees was too warm too. There was a lot of soft snow from the river to the bottom of the [...]
Ski touring: Croix de Carle
Great ski touring day with lot of fresh snow, clear sky but -14 degrees in the morning. I went to St Dalmas le Selvage (1496 m) in the Tinee valley to ski La Croix de Carlé (2529 m), the Crest of La Tour (2596 m) and the Vallon of La Tour. Great conditions but some [...]
Trail: Plan du var – Mont Ferion – Utelle – Mont Vial
This difficult and long trail running offers outstanding views over the French Riviera. It starts with the ascent of Mont Ferion (1412m) and Col de l’Autaret (1308m), then goes down in the Vesubie valley, goes up to Utelle, down to Tinee Valley before traversing Mont Vial (1541m) from North to South. Overall the trail is [...]
Trail: St Sauveur sur Tinee – Longon
This trail starts at the village of St Sauveur sur Tinee (510m) and make a loop along the GR 52A and the GR 5 up to Longon (1941m) in the Mercantour National Park. The trail is good and well marked (red and white paint). Distance: 38 km, ascent: 2000m / descent: 2000m. Vignols and Portes [...]
Trail: Mont Saint Sauveur
This trail is one of the very few with 2000 meters of continuous climb in a relatively short distance (7.5 km). It starts in the Valley of Tinee, 6km after the village of St Sauveur sur Tinee at 670 meters. It goes in the forest, passes the Vacherie de St Sauveur and continues straight in [...]
Trail: Bairols – Ilonse