Please note: the route has many parts on mountain trails where it is not easy to run, especially in the Néouvielle area, around Col de Bastanet and Hourquette Nère. Start thursday at 5 am from the square of Vielle Aure leaving by roads, transitable roads and banked trail to join Eget. Forest roads and trail to join the walkway de la Gèla via the aid station at the centre de vacances. The Barroude walls stands in front of you. Large ascend to the pic des Aiguillettes going through the border pass of port Vieux. Steep descent toward the aid station of tunnel de Bielsa. Demending climb to port de Bataillence. Passage through a hanging valley leads us to the Héchempy lake. Another steep descent to join the granges de Moudang. Transitable road downhill to Fabian. From Fabian, the well named route des Lacs and another trail brings you up to lac de l’Oule, restaurant Merlans and col de Portet. Final downhill to the finish line in Vielle Aure. The bests could finish under 7 hours. Time barriers are calculated for an 18 hours finish. The race times are as follows, starting Friday :
Km
Alt
D+
D-
Vielle-Aure
0,0
791
Départ
0
0
5:00
5:00
Vignec
1,9
820
29
0
5:06
5:14
Chemin de Traoues
6,0
966
175
0
5:25
5:59
Eget Village
7,5
1079
288
0
5:35
6:22
Eget Cité
8,6
1012
288
67
5:40
6:32
Pont d'Eget
9,2
1064
340
67
5:43
6:40
Pont de Moudang
10,6
1080
356
67
5:48
6:52
Centre de vacances
13,2
1325
601
67
6:04
7:29
7:30
Chaubère
14,6
1403
679
67
6:11
7:46
Chapelle des Templiers
15,0
1370
679
100
6:13
7:51
Passerelle
18,3
1673
982
100
6:36
8:44
Port Vieux
23,3
2384
1693
100
7:21
10:33
Pic de l'Aiguillette
23,8
2461
1770
100
7:27
10:48
Tunnel de Bielsa
26,2
1820
1770
741
7:43
11:29
11:30
Intersection Port de Bataillence
27,9
2240
2190
741
8:06
12:26
Port de Bataillence
29,7
2465
2415
741
8:26
13:15
Lac de Héchempy
30,4
2311
2415
895
8:31
13:29
Granges de Moudang
35,2
1545
2415
1661
9:01
14:45
Pont de Moudang
40,5
1080
2415
2126
9:25
15:48
Fabian
43,0
1190
2525
2126
9:38
16:24
16:30
Pont de Couplan
46,3
1405
2785
2171
10:03
17:30
Chalet refuge de l'Oule
49,0
1820
3218
2189
10:36
19:02
Restaurant Merlans
50,9
2035
3433
2189
10:52
19:46
19:45
Col de Portet
52,4
2214
3612
2189
11:03
20:16
D123
56,4
1492
3612
2911
11:25
21:19
Vignec
61,9
823
3612
3580
11:53
22:41
Vielle-Aure
63,6
791
3612
3612
12:00
23:00
23:00