N°51 Cabane et Lac de Lhurs
Description
A secret lake in a lost cirque, a lush haven in the midst of a mineral world... You couldn't imagine all this when you start out on this route. The trail starts on a great piste and runs through very different settings then, when you least expect it, the lake appears!
Technical informations
11 km
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max. 1717 m
min. 998 m
740 m
740 m
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Altimetric profile
Starting point
Steps
Piste
From the parking of Anapia, go back up the piste from the car park and left at the intersection (totem). Walk on this path and get back onto a piste that you need to take to go left. Continue on the flat for a bit then take a right at the entrance to the woods that looks like a river bed: steep and pebbly! Get back onto the piste higher up and continue your ascent. Ignore the left-hand piste and carry on until a clear hairpin bend.
Path
Take the path on the left that goes along the ridge line then crosses a hillside clearing. The track is once again covered and goes up to the right before a few bends get you back onto the piste. This section doesn't appear on the IGN map so don't go onto the old path (still on the map). Cross the thalweg and the terrain gets very pebbly and runs along large paving stones.
Piquet de Lhurs
Carry on and watch out for rolling stones. The grassy infiltration strip below can be very slippery. Don't venture onto it: there are cliffs below. Carry on and cross a river bed after a short descent.
At last the Lake!
Pass the black rock area (watch your ankles). The slope levels out and crosses the lapiaz. Once again flat, carry on along silty terrain until you see the lake and cabin below overlooked by the "table of the tree kings". A track goes past the lake on the right and leads to the cabin.
descent
From the cabin, take the path towards the lake. Go round the lake and turn right along the rocks to get back onto the path in the midst of the lapiaz. Watch out for the section on the ledge as rolling stones can slip. At the bottom of the piste, don't forget to take a right onto the pebbly section just before a bend.
Points of interest
The Piquet
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Additional information
Balisage
Yellow
Trait
Typologie de l'itinéraire
Return
Equipements
Picnic area
Water point
Thèmes
Natural
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