Trail du Sancy Mont-Dore Caisse d'Epargne

Four distances, four endurance trials of strength! Le Puy-de-Dôme, land of volcanoes, is also a land of challenges 🌋. The Trail du Sancy Mont-Dore (not to be confused with the cheese 😉) invites you to four distinct routes that total 3050 participants at most (ranging from 500 to 1050 per trail). It’s at the end of September that this town in Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes hosts the event, during a period already fairly cool in the region, even chilly at altitude passages. 😅

Here’s the time to pick your route. Let’s go from shortest to longest and most intense The first: "La Dorée Trail", length of 10.4 km with 750 meters of positive elevation. So it’s the shortest, open and accessible to everyone, for beginners to pros, with running or hiking paces. A perfect way to test yourself on a first trail. 👌

Second distance: "The Ridge Path, 7.9 km with a positive elevation of 1300 meters in total. It’s therefore a step up from the previous one. A race that features numerous spectacular viewpoints 🌄, with sections on the ridges of the highest peaks of the Massif Central including the ascent of the Puy de Sancy which peaks at 1886 meters. Bonus: descents are on ski slopes ⛷️! A perfect route to test and improve your speed.

Third route, and not the least: "The Trail of Sancy, 35.5 km long with an even more impressive positive elevation of 2050 meters 🙄. It’s the trail as you imagine it, embodying everything: a good distance, a nice elevation gain… Ideal for purists. It will let you discover the Massif de Sancy and traverse the Chaudefour Valley to see the Dent de la Rancune and the Crest of the Cock 🐔. This trail is a great way to prep for your big events and gauge yourself against such a challenge.

Finally, the cap, the peak, the rock: "The Grand Trail of Sancy. Get your legs ready, train your breath: it borders on Ultra Trail. 63.5 kilometers long, 3500 meters of positive elevation, leaving us fatigued just reading the numbers 😩. The extraordinary landscapes of Trail Sancy follow one another without ever seeming to stop, alternating positive and negative elevations, with on your path: glacial valleys, volcanoes, high peaks of the Massif Central… A wild race, in every sense of the word! 😁

Mont-Dore is your reference point, a great mountain village, a paradise for hikers in summer 🚶‍♂️, a skier’s Eden ⛷️ and a snowboarder’s haven in winter 🏂. This resort is also ideal for post-race recovery.

Come show off your Sancy side! 😜