Tour around Blanc and Noir lakes

Beautiful view of Lac Blanc. Lac Noir is ideal for a lunch break with its restaurant, which also serves snacks and drinks. Much of the trail consists of large rocks that you have to climb over or down, so it is quite physically demanding and walking sticks are strongly recommended for safety.

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Hello,

visorando has the "excellent" signposting of the Club Vosgien. It is compulsory on IGN maps. If you want to do without it, you have to choose OSM.

Rather than improvising once you've arrived on site using the app on your smartphone, I advise you to plot out the route you plan to take on the site, then synchronise it with your smartphone. You'll have the whole area marked out with the CV, and you can go wherever you want. You don't have to follow the planned route, just have the whole area at your disposal.

Like any tool, using the app takes a little getting used to. But once you've got the hang of it, it's very practical.

I also find it hard to understand how to use the GPS with a mobile phone.

Don't hesitate to consult the instructions and ask your questions in the "application" part of the forum. This is the section where we comment on the tours. You'll find help here, either from ordinary hikers or from the visorando team.

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''ANSWER
Visorando favours guiding hikers with the help of a description and an extract from an IGN map rather than the use of waymarking, which it does not control. In answering this questionnaire, please focus on the quality of the description and the route, without mentioning the markings.

Is this the answer to my comment below?

I'm a bit disappointed with Visorando.
In the early days, we had access to IGN maps with the excellent Club Vosgien markings.

Now the "MAP" function is missing.

I'm not really interested in all these ready-made hikes. I've been guiding hikes myself for years, first near Reims where I used to live and now around Ribeauvillé (Haut-Rhin).

What I need is to be able to zoom in on a very specific area to 'visualise' the walk I want to do.

I'm also having trouble understanding how to use GPS with a mobile phone.
I used to click on a map "near home" and I'd have the map of the place I was in front of me.
I can't do that any more, even in "position" mode.

I have to go to GEOPORTAIL which works very well, I zoom in on the desired area, I make a screen copy and I use it for my walk.

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I'm a bit disappointed with Visorando.
In the early days, we had access to IGN maps with the excellent Club Vosgien markings.

Now the "MAP" function is missing.

I'm not really interested in all these ready-made hikes. I've been guiding hikes myself for years, first near Reims where I used to live and now around Ribeauvillé (Haut-Rhin).

What I need is to be able to zoom in on a very specific area to 'visualise' the walk I want to do.

I'm also having trouble understanding how to use GPS with a mobile phone.
I used to click on a map "near home" and I'd have the map of the place I was in front of me.
I can't do that any more, even in "position" mode.

I have to go to GEOPORTAIL which works very well, I zoom in on the desired area, I make a screen copy and I use it for my walk.

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Magnificent hike in the middle of April. However, bear in mind that this hike is difficult and very technical from the descent towards the Lac Blanc from Rocher Hans (point 8). There are handrails here to help, but the path is still very dangerous on this section because of the many rocks and the steepness of the slope. Avoid for :
- Beginners.
- People prone to vertigo.
- Bad weather conditions! Absolutely avoid in the rain/just afterwards as the stones can be very slippery.

Apart from that, it's a magnificent view of the white lake, a magical setting!

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Hello,
Very nice snowshoe walk, but with two drawbacks:

• # The descent to the Lac Noir could not be made on the planned route due to the closure of the route for the protection of wildlife (diversions of about 1km).
• # The descent to Lac Blanc in winter conditions is dangerous!

It's steep and slippery!
If you really want to do this walk, it's better to do it in the opposite direction!

Enjoy the walk!

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A very nice walk with beautiful views. Be careful with young children.

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we did the circuit in the other direction and we also increased the course by passing by the lake of the trouts, like çà circuit with 3 lakes. to envisage 1H30 more approximately. splendid landscapes.

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SUPER SPORTS HIKE: DO IT!!!
however, the descent to the dam at lac BLANC is dangerous as it is slippery (mud) if it has rained the previous few days.

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Very good walk, good spirit on the trail, beautiful views.

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We did this walk on Saturday 2 January on snowshoes, under 1m to 1m50 of snow at the highest point (snowshoes compulsory).

It was a white day, so unfortunately for us there were no views, but the trail was very varied, with the route des crêtes, forest sections and beautiful viewpoints.

However, on the way back down to the Lac Blanc (after point 8), the path was very dangerous: we had to take off our snowshoes and proceed on foot/on our backsides, and a snow-covered staircase with extremely slippery steps gave us cold sweats... if we had to do it again, we might have done it in the opposite direction in heavy snow conditions, or taken another path back down if there was one.

Most of the trail is of course suitable for snowshoes, but be careful and beware of the risk of avalanches: record snowfall at the moment.

Thank you for this route, which we'll be happy to do again in the spring, hopefully with better visibility!

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A beautiful, aerial route with magnificent views.

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Nice walk, easy on the whole, with some technical sections, be careful if you have vertigo and children, beautiful panoramic views...

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Very nice walk, superb views.
Not recommended with children.

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