Trail d'Aqui - Bozouls
16.5 km - D+ 550m - ** - Run when you feel like it? Run with whoever you want? Let yourself be guided? Run in total freedom! 12 % road - 43 % wide track - 45 % single-track - 100 % happiness
What a sight to see as you start out on the side of the canyon! You will ride along this geological curiosity and you will have 3km of flat as a warm up.
On the tracks of the famous Gourg d'Enfer, you will plunge towards the Dourdou as soon as you leave Sentels. Beautiful monotraces through boxwoods (recently affected by the moth...).
After 5km, the terrible Carcuac hill is waiting for you. One kilometer, it is regular in the difficulty! A few roller coasters later, following the tracks of the sheep herds, you are back in Carcuac for the typical Templar descent! It's steep, it's narrow, it's beautiful but it's hard (130 D- in 700m)!
You pass a second time the bridge over the Dourdou and attack the sublime Bruel hump (110 D+ in 700m). Le Bruel, phew! A sublime track across the field then it winds gently and flat above the canyon (opposite side to the start of the route).
You go back to the Dourdou river by a new single then a road to reach the stream and 1,5km of flat in the shade. A footbridge further on, it's the ascent to the old castle that awaits you... It's short but it wears you out..
Heading downhill to the sublime Ste Fauste church and its terrible steps, each one as irregular as the next... Come on, only 50 D+ on the last wall that brings you back to the viewpoint: enough to forget all your suffering!
