Rue des Fontaines
Rue des Fontaines is a short, power-hike climb above Vars in Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur. Graded as a hiking trail, so fitness matters more than footing. Its steepest 500 metres run at 19.2% and come almost at once, before your legs have settled. Its 2.6 TEP puts it in the easier half of the catalogue. Expect 11 to 18 minutes. It faces south: warm in summer, and often clear of snow when the slopes around it are not.
- TEP
- 2.6
- Climb
- +166 m
- Distance
- 1.0 km
- Average grade
- 15.8%
- Time
- 11 to 18 min
Climbs nearby
- le Grand Vallon, 5.5 km at 12.3% (0.7 km away)
- PNR Queyras, 8.1 km at 7.3%, Vars (0.8 km away)
- la Cabane de la Pinée, 1.4 km at 16.4% (0.9 km away)
- PNR Queyras, 3.7 km at 14.5%, Vars (1.2 km away)
- PNR Queyras, 5.4 km at 13.4%, Vars (1.4 km away)
- le Bois de la Pinée, 879 m at 19.1% (1.4 km away)
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