Hourquette d'Alans
The print
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About the Hourquette d'Alans trail
Spanning 4.9 miles in Pyrénées National Park, Hourquette d'Alans climbs 2,464 feet in total, from a low of 5,414 feet to a high of 7,880 feet. The steepest pitch reaches 34 percent, against an average of 503 feet of gain per mile. The 4.9 miles is the one-way distance of the drawn route. On our gain-and-distance scale it falls in the strenuous band. The nearest town is Sabiñánigo, about 24 miles away.
The trail
The Cirque d'Estaubé is a cirque in the central Pyrenees in the Pyrenees National Park, forming the frontier between France and Spain. The cirque lies 4 km to the east of its better known neighbour, the Cirque de Gavarnie, which is accessible via the Hourquette d'Alans (2, 430 m); the Marboré valley is reached via the Brèche de Tuquerouye (Tuca Arroja) (2, 666 m), where there is a small CAF hut.
Text: Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0
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Trail geometry and place names 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.