131 CH-VD T3 St-Cergue Bois de Cuvaloup Pointe de Fin Château Pointe de Poêle Chaud Col de Porte La Dôle Les Creux Le Vuarne
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 8.17 mi
- Elevation gain
- 2,346 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 2,346 ft
- Max elevation
- 5,453 ft
- TrailRank
- 32
- Min elevation
- 3,625 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Time
- 6 hours 13 minutes
- Coordinates
- 5384
- Uploaded
- March 25, 2024
- Recorded
- March 2024
near Les Chesaux, Canton de Vaud (Switzerland)
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Itinerary description
Date : 2024.03.24
Duration on paper : 06h47
Duration real with breaks : 06h13
Difficulty for me : T3
Physical : average
Technical : average
Fear : low
Average Slope : +14.8% -11.6%
Attendance ascent/summit/descent : null/low/low
Comment : A hike that is still doable in winter in not great conditions IF you already did it once in summer and you also have previously saved a map in local-offline on your smartphone app (no data network there) or you have a gps watch with open maps as the ascent trail is not on official swiss hiking maps (but international maps yes) and despite it having many red paint marks in winter most of them are under the snow I had to look on my gps watch more than once and try to find the next visible red paint on trees. It's also a pretty steep T3 made of roots and rocks hidden under the snow it's not for casuals or beginners and poles-sticks are mandatory you will slip and need something to stabilize you. You cannot do the ascent on snowshoes we only put them on for the descent after la Dôle.
Once you reach pointe de fin chateau it's an easy hike (hiking shoes) till la Dôle summit the summer ridge trail was too windy it started snowing so we took the lower path till the radar.
We put snowshoes for the descent from la Dôle most of it was doable on regular shoes but it would have been slower with high chance of slipping and you would have add to take a detour and find your own way under Les Creux because no way you can descend a 44% slope like shown in my last photo without snowshoes it was already borderline with them the spikes helped a lot on the half frozen slope.
YOUTUBE WIKILOC HIKES 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZQ8J3CReaI&list=PLOCc4Atr-UDciHfh4cfiExrh47IgIu2RH&index=19
Duration on paper : 06h47
Duration real with breaks : 06h13
Difficulty for me : T3
Physical : average
Technical : average
Fear : low
Average Slope : +14.8% -11.6%
Attendance ascent/summit/descent : null/low/low
Comment : A hike that is still doable in winter in not great conditions IF you already did it once in summer and you also have previously saved a map in local-offline on your smartphone app (no data network there) or you have a gps watch with open maps as the ascent trail is not on official swiss hiking maps (but international maps yes) and despite it having many red paint marks in winter most of them are under the snow I had to look on my gps watch more than once and try to find the next visible red paint on trees. It's also a pretty steep T3 made of roots and rocks hidden under the snow it's not for casuals or beginners and poles-sticks are mandatory you will slip and need something to stabilize you. You cannot do the ascent on snowshoes we only put them on for the descent after la Dôle.
Once you reach pointe de fin chateau it's an easy hike (hiking shoes) till la Dôle summit the summer ridge trail was too windy it started snowing so we took the lower path till the radar.
We put snowshoes for the descent from la Dôle most of it was doable on regular shoes but it would have been slower with high chance of slipping and you would have add to take a detour and find your own way under Les Creux because no way you can descend a 44% slope like shown in my last photo without snowshoes it was already borderline with them the spikes helped a lot on the half frozen slope.
YOUTUBE WIKILOC HIKES 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZQ8J3CReaI&list=PLOCc4Atr-UDciHfh4cfiExrh47IgIu2RH&index=19
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