Expert mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike.

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Frank

September 26, 2023

Easy to reach from Les Chapieux by pushing, from the other side you have to do acrobatics and climb up through a steep group of scree and stones, sometimes dangerous

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September 2, 2023

The Col du Bonhomme is located in the south-east of Haute-Savoie and entirely within the municipal territory of Contamines-Montjoie, the administrative limit with Beaufort passes on the side of the pass, about one kilometer further south than the line peak1.

It constitutes a relatively easy natural passage between the Bonhomme rock and the Pennaz needles, thus making it possible to communicate the Montjoie valley to the north with the Beaufortain to the southwest1: the two sections of the old national road 202 interrupted between the Chapieux to the south and Notre-Dame-de-la-Gorge to the north were to be connected via the Col du Bonhomme before the project was abandoned.

The Col du Bonhomme is known for its singular Sandstones, a predominantly siliciclastic sedimentary system discovered by de Saussure in 17792, and whose origin is enigmatic3.

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Location: Les Contamines-Montjoie, Bonneville, Auvergne Rhône Alpes, France

Col du Bonhomme

1. Col du Bonhomme from Les Contamines — Contamines-Montjoie Nature Reserve

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