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Le col de Marie Blanque en vélo
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Leaving Arudy, taking the Col de Marie-Blanque route offers the advantage of turning your legs over a few kilometers for a bucolic warm-up along the banks of the Gave and the Ossau greenway. The ascent really begins in Bielle, and although the welcome sign announces an average gradient of 5.2% over 11 km, this remains a (misleading) average, and this easy preamble will come in very handy. In reality, the climb is a two-storey ramp. The first four kilometers are the steepest, with gradients that can flirt with 10%. But the views are remarkable, both over the valley and the mountain village of Bilhères-en-Ossau. The intermediate traverse of the Benou plateau gives you the chance to catch your breath amidst cows and horses grazing freely in a picture-postcard setting. Only one difficult kilometer remains to f
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Balisage
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Typologie de l'itinéraire
Walking trail
Durée moyenne de l'expérience
2 to 3 hours
Thèmes
Natural
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