Cycling loop: Tour du Mont d'Hermone

The Vallée Verte circuit and the Tour of Mont d'Hermone, together with their variants, allow cyclists to reap an impressive harvest of easy passes.

Departure point / TER: Thonon-les-Bains or Habère-Poche
Length: 45 km
Difficulty: difficult
Total ascent: 840 m
Maximum altitude: 1120m
Direction: clockwise
Landmarks and connections : Armoy (separation from Circuit de Planbois n°50) ;
Armoy (separation with Circuit de Planbois n°50); Vailly / Sous-la-Côte (separation with Tour du Roc d'Enfer n°37); Habère-Poche and Draillant (separation then joint return with Circuit de la Vallée Verte n°28).

Description:Mont d'Hermone is home to the Notre Dame d'Hermone chapel (1328 m) on its summit ridge in the middle of the forest. It is an active Marian pilgrimage site for all the parishes in the massif, and can be reached on foot from the
Col du Feu (1120 m). The tour takes you over two other passes: Col de Terramont (1090 m) and Col des Moises (1121 m). The former is reached by a continuous climb from Thonon (RD26, then RD22 after Vailly / Sous-la-Côte). After a descent to Habère-Poche, you'll climb to the second after leaving the Col de Cou road (RD12) at the Ramble hamlet vacation camp (RD246). As you climb to the Col des Moises, you'll see the winch launch site of the Léman Mont-Blanc glider piloting school on your right. This velisurface, created in 1995, is the only one of its kind in Haute-Savoie.
Haute-Savoie