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Vallée des Merveilles Topographic print
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Grand Tour and Mont Bego

Vallée des Merveilles

$59
18.5 mi loop · 5,367 ft of climbing · Mercantour National Park. Drawn from this trail's real elevation data, printed to order.
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Size 18×24″
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The print

Printed to order at 300 DPI, rendered natively at your size and never upscaled. Print only; the frame in the photos is for scale.

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Vallée des Merveilles · Topographic · 18×24″
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About the Vallée des Merveilles trail

5,367 feet of elevation gain over 18.5 miles: that is Vallée des Merveilles, a loop in Mercantour National Park running between 5,067 and 8,371 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 66 percent, against an average of 290 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the very strenuous band. The nearest town is Boves, about 16 miles away.

The trail

Mont Bégo (Italian: Monte Bego; Ligurian: Monte Begu) is a mountain in the Mercantour massif of the Maritime Alps, in southern France, with an elevation of 2,872 metres (9, 423 ft). It is included in the Vallée des Merveilles ("Valley of Marvels").

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Along the route

  • Bivouac areami 2.2
  • Baisse de Vallaurettami 3.4
  • Ghias du Soleilmi 8.6
  • Baisse de Valmasquemi 10.5

Places OpenStreetMap maps within 150 m of the route.

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Questions about the Vallée des Merveilles print

What sizes does the Vallée des Merveilles poster come in?
4 sizes: 12×16″ $39, 18×24″ $59, 24×32″ $79, 30×40″ $99. Every size is printed natively at 300 DPI, from $39.
Is this made from real elevation data?
Yes. The contours and elevation profile are drawn from USGS 3DEP and AWS Terrain Tiles sampled along the actual Vallée des Merveilles track.
How hard is Vallée des Merveilles?
On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the very strenuous band: 18.5 mi loop with 5,367 ft of climbing. The scale uses only distance and climbing; it does not account for exposure, altitude, cables, river crossings or permits.
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Place names along the route: © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Best months are an estimate from NASA POWER climate data (CC BY 4.0), 2001 to 2020 monthly averages adjusted to the trail's elevation, not an official season; check current conditions and closures.