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Puy de Montoncel

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Puy de Montoncel

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Puy de Montoncel

Name: Puy de Montoncel
Rating: 2

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Location: Arconsat, Thiers, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France

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1. Puy de Montoncel – Reservoir loop from La Guillermie

13.6km

04:20

540m

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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2. Puy de Montoncel loop from Saint-Priest-la-Prugne

6.67km

02:00

200m

Moderate hike. Great for any fitness level. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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3. Puy de Montoncel – Ginish stones loop from Saint-Priest-la-Prugne

8.73km

02:51

380m

Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required.

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SimonWicart

August 31, 2023

The Puy de Montoncel is an extinct volcano, peaking at 1,287 meters above sea level. In a notebook I wrote about him:

“Its slopes are covered with a majestic thorn forest, with an archaic, sometimes primal beauty. The rare paths that cut through the woods wind along the slopes, in the shade of the green giants. These paths are the veins of the forest. They are the tunnels of abundant oxygen. From meadows to groves, I have the impression of floating on an ocean of nature.

At the top of the puy, I find an empty plateau of trees as if blown by the wind, and covered with thick thatch. A huge iron cross rises in the sky, looks mischievously at the wind turbines which on the neighboring ridges come alive to the sound of the air.

I sit on a large carpet of green grass, real velvet to rest my body from this first and sweaty ascent. I light a pipe and happily observe the volcanoes of Auvergne which stir up the horizon. Their supple and rounded shapes give the impression of observing distant hills. Puy-de-Dôme, Monts Dore, Puy-de-Sancy, I have fun guessing the roofs on which I trudged the previous year. »

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Elevation 1,280 m

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Location: Arconsat, Thiers, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France

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Puy de Montoncel

1. Puy de Montoncel – Reservoir loop from La Guillermie

2. Puy de Montoncel loop from Saint-Priest-la-Prugne

3. Puy de Montoncel – Ginish stones loop from Saint-Priest-la-Prugne

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