Le Piolit, the region's iconic peak, rewards the effort, with its steep gradients. This little-frequented route offers a wide variety of flowers to brighten up the climb. This bucolic atmosphere is succeeded by a rockier landscape which marks the end of the hard stretch and gradually reveals a more distant horizon from which the first 3000m of the Ecrins to the north and the lake of Serre-Ponçon to the south emerge.
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