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Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin

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Drawn from the real elevation of Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin.
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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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Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin · Topographic · 18×24″
$59 5 to 10 business days

About the Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin trail

Spanning 4.3 miles in France, Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin climbs 655 feet in total, from a low of 3,941 feet to a high of 4,570 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 30 percent, against an average of 152 feet of gain per mile. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the moderate band. The nearest town is Issoire, 18 miles away.

The trail

Lac Pavin or Lake Pavin (Auvergnat: Lac Pavent) is a meromictic crater lake, located in the Dore mountains, in Auvergne (Massif central), in the territory of the commune of Besse-et-Saint-Anastaise, Puy-de-Dôme department of France, between Besse-en-Chandesse and Super-Besse. Formed by phreatomagmatism 6,900 years ago, this crater lake is the youngest volcano in mainland France It gives its name to a cheese: Pavin cheese.

Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Questions about the Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin print

What sizes does the Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin 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 Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin track.
How hard is Le puy de Montchal et le Lac Pavin?
On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the moderate band: 4.3 mi loop with 655 ft of climbing. The scale uses only distance and climbing; it does not account for exposure, altitude, cables, river crossings or permits.

Trail geometry for this print: Map data © OpenStreetMap contributors, ODbL. Elevation: AWS Terrain Tiles. The derived trail dataset is published at /open-data. 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.