"Comfort" crossing for beginners or occasional mountain bikers
The electric mountain bike allows you to hike while reducing the effort but also to accompany someone more sporty who is on a traditional mountain bike. You can therefore make longer journeys with more gradients, more quickly and in great physical comfort, but without removing the exercise! the different levels of assistance selectable from the handlebars,
allow you to find the right balance between muscular effort, battery life and power of the electric assistance. Located on the marked and developed GTJ route, this hike is chosen on a portion where the relief lends itself perfectly to the discovery of hiking. This continues in the evening in very comfortable accommodation.
Halfway through, a day around Chapelle des Bois, a charming village full of serenity and greenery, which allows you to choose your program: a little rest with the relaxation area of the gîte, a few visits (ecomuseum, etc.) or a swim wild at the lake located nearby, or even mountain biking or a walk on the many possible loops from the village.
In short, a superb natural setting, for a “comfortable” crossing, where everyone takes pleasure where they want… and there is a choice!
OPTIONS:
- Giron-les Cernets return transfer package (2h30): €225/trip
- Station transfer package start and end of hike: 75€ (Pontarlier pick-up, Bellegarde sur Valserine drop-off)
The package includes:
- The organization of the hike
- The 6 half-boards + tourist taxes
- Baggage transport to the stage
- Loan of IGN maps + map holder
- A road book
- The GPS tracks of the stages
The package does not include:
- Drinks and personal expenses
- Midday meals
- Return transfer or station shuttles (possible option)
- Mountain biking
- Cancellation insurance
Catering: half-board (dinner, overnight stay and breakfast)
Indicative steps:
- Day 1: Welcome to Cernets (Switzerland) from 17 p.m.
You will be lent a map holder with 1 set of IGN 1/25000th maps on which the route is highlighted
- Day 2: Les Cernets-Rochejean
Distance: 42km / Elevation +: 800m / Elevation –: 1030 m
Distance: 52km/ Elevation +: 1380m / Elevation –: 1540m
After reaching Fort du Larmont, the Château de Joux will soon be in sight, superbly erected on its rocky outcrop. It is then a technical and rugged path that leads to Mt d'Or where a mountain bike chairlift provides access to a beautiful variant passing through the summit before plunging into Rochejean. Night in hotel **
- Day 3: Rochejean-Chapelle des Bois
Distance: 37 km / Elevation +: 770m / Elevation –: 620m
Pleasant course in pre-woods crossing the entire Val de Mouthe passing by the source of the Doubs. A very panoramic path then leads to Chappelle des Bois via Chaux Neuve and the heights of Foncine. Night in a "rando plume" gite or in a hotel**
- Day 4: Loop on Chapelle des Bois
The mountain village of Chapelle des Bois is a very natural end of the world! It offers a wide variety of mountain biking and hiking circuits, but also swimming in the lake, or visits (within a perimeter of a few kilometers: distilleries, ecomuseum, polar dog park). On the comfort accommodation option, you can take advantage, in the gîte, of the relaxation area with sauna and hamman (with supplement) and of the gym… It's up to you! Night in a "rando plume" gite or in a hotel**
- Day 5: Chapel of the Woods-Lamoura
Distance: 38 km / Elevation +: 870m / Elevation –: 795m
Distance: 37 km / Elevation +: 925m / Elevation –: 870m (Roche Bernard variant)
After skirting the Lacs des Mortes, it is a long climb in the forest of Risoux that you cross on these large silent tracks (white paths) to lead downhill to the resort of Les Rousses. Nice technical passage to reach the Bief de la Chaille before going up to Prémanon and the Combe Sambine. In May it is possible to carry out this stage by a variant avoiding the remains of snow of the forest of Risoux. Night in a *** hotel
- Day 6: Lamoura-Giron
Distance: 40 km / Elevation +: 1120m / Elevation –: 1175m
Distance: 39 km / Elevation +: 1106 / Elevation –: 1290m (combe de Malatrait variant)
With this stage, we taste the Jura "pure raw milk" with its high coombs, its pre-woods, its passages in pastures (single track). For sure, one of the most beautiful stages of the week. a mid-stage variant provides access to the heights of La Pesse via the Borne au Lion, a magnificent and renowned historic site, before beginning the descent to the village of Giron. Night in a hotel center or in a charming bed and breakfast
- Day 7: End after breakfast
Possibility of return shuttle to Cernets (arrival around 12 p.m.)
We may sometimes be required to modify the indicated itinerary somewhat: either at the organizational level (problem of availability of accommodation, modification of the state of the ground, etc.). These changes are always notified to you when booking.