Mont Luisandre - L'Abergement de Varey

Date of your route : Oct 30, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Windy day but well sheltered route in the woods. Do not try to avoid the D63 as the yellow marked trail... does not lead anywhere...
Very beautiful scenery and the passage through L'Abergement-de-Varey is a plus.

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Date of your route : Jul 24, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Saturday, 22 July 2023
A very beautiful hike with plenty of shade! The village of Nivollet and its three ponds
Mont Luissandre ++ A very beautiful viewpoint! A few other viewpoints over the Haut Jura!
The start and return are quite steep and should be avoided if it has rained recently!
Arrival back at a bar-restaurant... mmm, ice cream and a visit to the Château des Allymes as a bonus!
We used GPS for this route and had no trouble following it!
We got lost at one point, but that was my fault

Thank you very much for sharing this hike!

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Date of your route : Apr 25, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Departure at 9:50 a.m., return at 5:00 p.m. Beautiful, cool weather, slightly foggy, ideal for hiking.

At Col de Nivollet, the yellow markings on the hiking trail had been refreshed, so we thought the trail was open again... but that wasn't the case... what a shame! This makes me wonder why the markings are kept in place when the trails are closed?

Otherwise, it was a very beautiful walk through the forest with some very wide views, particularly at the summit of Mont Luisandre.

Don't miss out on a detour to the Château des Allymes, which has just been completely renovated.

Thank you to the author for this lovely suggestion.

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Date of your route : Mar 07, 2022
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : Not used / Not applicable
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Hello,
Wonderful route, perfect weather, sunny, no issues with the smartphone app. Thank you, Visorando

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Date of your route : Jun 11, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

Hello,
A beautiful hike with lovely views at Mont Luisandre. In addition to the map, a GPS is useful for certain junctions.
At the Col de Nivollet, we tried to take the path on the right that leads to Nivollet to avoid the D63, but don't do this unless you want to go under electric fences and end up having to climb over a metal gate about 2 metres high! It's surprising that this path is still marked in yellow!

Shady paths are welcome at this time of year, but sometimes there are a few too many roads, and the final stretch with its steep, muddy and therefore slippery slope can be difficult for people in a group, especially at the end of the route.

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Hello,
I'm terrible with maps and coordinates, but the first pin precedes the second (well...). I mean that it's pretty much straight between the two and over a short distance.
It seems to me (it seems to me...) that the first one is at elevation 602 and the path opposite leads towards Le Fays (black dotted line).
The second hairpin bend is just after (elevation 602 too?); it forms a hairpin bend with the D63 and the nicely gravelled path opposite (red dotted line) would be the one leading to Glaire. That's why you have to follow the road to the left, which is what the GPS indicated.
Best regards

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Hello,

Thank you for your feedback.

There are two hairpins, and both have a gravel road opposite them, but it is at the second hairpin that you need to turn off, not opposite but to the left.

Could you please tell me where the first hairpin bend is?

Between point (1) (elevation 738) and elevation 702
Between elevation 702 and elevation 649
Between elevation 649 and elevation 629
Between elevation 629 and the first elevation 602

Thank you in advance

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Date of your route : Apr 29, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Very nice hike. Average description (without GPS we would have got lost). For example, it says:
(1) "Follow the tarmac road and at the hairpin bend continue straight on along the gravel forest road until you reach the junction with the RD63." There are actually two hairpin bends, both with a gravel road opposite, but it is at the second hairpin bend that you have to turn off, not opposite but to the left!
Apart from that, the climb towards the end didn't bother us too much, except for the mud, where you take one step forward and three steps back! We had a good laugh about it!
Thank you for this post.

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Date of your route : Jun 09, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : Not used / Not applicable
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

Beautiful hike with stunning views. Based on the comments, I thought the final climb would be harder, but the first part is a gentle ascent. Only the last quarter is quite steep.

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Thank you, BNM. I had hesitated to take this route at the Col de Nivollet (see my comment) and I thought it was passable!

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Date of your route : Jul 28, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

A very pleasant hike in warm weather, with lots of shaded sections and woodland paths. In winter or wet weather, some sections may be difficult to navigate. The only downside: a little too much tarmac for my liking.
The final climb is indeed steep, but personally, I prefer this type of difficulty on the way up rather than on the way down.
At the Col de Nivollet, we also thought about avoiding the road by taking the dotted line marked on the map. But we soon came to a fenced-off field (private property...) with an electric fence, which we couldn't get around, so we had to turn back.

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Date of your route : Jun 30, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A very interesting hike with magnificent views of Mount Luissandre and several deer crossings
A few clarifications in the description would make it easier, such as putting the intermediate points on the map with a reminder in the description, indicating the coloured markings to follow when they exist and can be followed, and providing details on certain tricky junctions (bottom of the Luissandre barns, arrival at the top of the combe above Dalivoy).
I didn't understand why, at the Col de Nivollet, the description asked us to follow the tarmac road, which is narrow and therefore dangerous when vehicles pass each other, when there is a yellow-marked path to take at the Col de Nivollet, slightly to the right of the D94a road, which also leads to Nivollet. This would seem to me to be nicer and cooler than the tarmac road
In the end, it took me 5 hours to complete the route instead of the 6 hours 20 minutes stated. I usually stick pretty closely to the hiking times on Visorando, so isn't the time inflated by at least an hour? 5 hours 30 minutes would seem more accurate to me.
In any case, thank you for this hike!

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Date of your route : Apr 30, 2017
Reliability of the description : Not used / Not applicable
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

We don't regret doing it clockwise, as there was no gruelling climb at the end, but instead we finished at Mont Luisandre, which offers spectacular views – it really is a sight to behold.

Thank you for this superb hike

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Date of your route : Apr 30, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

A very beautiful hike. Varied: plains, forest paths or trails, a little bit of road. The landscape varies throughout this beautiful walk. Completed in 5½ hours (excluding lunch break) with the help of a GPS, as the details are sketchy (sufficient, however, if you use the IGN map at the same time, but I'm lazy). For almost the entire walk, I wondered why it was rated "moderate". Ahhh, the last climb: 3 km, 2.3 of which were reasonably steep, but the end... a real goat path with rocks, roots, mud... Doable, of course, but we were glad to be back. Before this "very steep slope", we hadn't really felt our muscles. Many thanks to whoever posted this hike.

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Thank you, acdy
I may be repeating myself, but the trail marking does not depend on us or the author.
The rating of the hike should not depend on this element, but only on the quality of the description and route as presented by the author of the hike.

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