Le Piolit vertical kilometre

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A sporty route through the colourful mountain pastures leading to Le Piolit.

Le Piolit, the region's iconic peak, rewards the effort, with its steep gradients. This very bucolic atmosphere is followed by a more mineral landscape which marks the end of the efforts and gradually reveals a more distant horizon from which emerge the first 3000m of the Ecrins to the north and the lake of Serre-Ponçon to the south.

Description

1. First follow the track via the yellow markings, then leave the track for a small path on the right. Cross the track and stay on it until you reach the crossroads. Go straight ahead past the houses. Turn left towards a farm then continue uphill past a second house.

2. When you reach the track, keep right until you reach the end. Then take a path on the left that leads around a cow pasture. Turn left down the path.

3. Cross a stream and shortly after turn right onto a small path. Continue straight on at the next intersection. Turn right into the hollow of a valley and continue on a track that disappears under the grass 200m higher up.

4. Then go along a ravine. Then climb up along a scree (yellow stakes and cairns). Follow the cairns in the pastures and then cross a new scree slope. There is one scree slope after another as far as the Col de Chorges.

5. Turn left to reach the summit of Piolit, the final section is very steep and more rugged.

6. The return journey takes the same route.

Departure : Hamlet of Naune Raze
Arrival : Hamlet of Naune Raze
Towns crossed : Chorges and Ancelle

Altimetric profile

Recommandations

Wear clothing suited to the terrain and weather conditions (windbreaker, gloves, hat...)

Herd protection dogs

In mountain pastures, protection dogs are there to protect the herds from predators (wolves, etc.).

When I hike I adapt my behavior by going around the herd and pausing for the dog to identify me.

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Information desks

Tourist office Chorges

Grand rue, 05230 Chorges

https://www.serreponcon.com chorges@serreponcon-tourisme.com 0492506425

October to may : Monday to Saturday, 9.00 - 12.30 & 13.30 - 17.00.
April, may, june & september : Monday to Saturday, 9.00 - 12.30 & 14.30 - 18.00
July and August : Monday to Saturday, 9:00 – 12.30 & 14.30 – 19.00 Sunday 9.30 – 12.30

Closed on Thursdays outside French holidays’ periods
Closed on French national holidays, except 14th of July and 15th of August

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Tourist office Savines-le-Lac

9 Avenue de la Combe d'Or, 05160 Savines-le-Lac

https://www.serreponcon-tourisme.com/savineslelac@serreponcon-tourisme.com 0492443100

October to march : Monday to Saturday, 9.00 - 12.30 & 13.30 - 17.00.
April, may, june & september : Monday to Saturday, 9.00 - 12.30 & 14.30 - 18.00
July and August : Monday to Saturday, 9.00 - 13.00 & 15.00 - 19.00. Sundays, 10.00 - 13.00 & 15.00 - 18.00

Closed on French national holidays, except 14th of July, and 15th of August
Closed on Thursdays outside French holidays’ periods

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Tourist office Embrun

Place Général Dosse - BP 49, 05202 Embrun

https://www.serreponcon-tourisme.com/embrun@serreponcon-tourisme.com 0492437272

On French national holidays (except 14th of July and 15th of August) : 9am to 1pm. Closed on the 1st of January, 1st of May, 25th December and 11th November
Closed on Thursdays outside French holidays’ periods

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Access and parking

Follow the Nationale 94 from Gap or Embrun. Once in Chorges, take the D69 to the hamlet of Les Andrieux. Follow the small road as it rises to the hamlet of Naune Raze.

Parking :

Chirouzes car park

Source

Serre-Ponçonhttps://www.serreponcon.com

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