All Saints Holidays: 5 outdoor activities
In ten days will start the All Saints holidays.A period always conducive to hiking and bivouac, with a single fall atmosphere.
The fall, the best season of the trip?The summits are slowly covering with snow, the yellowing valleys, the slopes turned to orange.At night, the film frost covers the grass and drops the temperature.The atmospheres, made up of diffuse and light light, are unique during this period of the year.What encourage you to catch your bag to go on the paths of France, a few hours, a few days or even the whole holiday period ...
1/ Day trips in our massifs
Let's start with a well -known massif of Grenoblois and Chambériens: the Chartreuse.Between Isère and Savoie, these limestone pre -Alps extend over a length of 42 km.Summits, waterfalls, forests ... The chain contains many wild corners.
Dent de Crolles (2062 m), Grande Sue (1920 m), Grand Som (2026 m), Mont Granier (1933 m) ... We recently devoted a web article, as well as a number to the Chartreuse!
2/ Take up at the bivouac
Even if the nights are fresh, it is quite possible to camp in the wild during this period.For a night as for a weekend or long roaming, the bivouac is always a privileged moment.Whether in the forest, in the plain or in the mountains, the basic principles are the same: a discreet corner, a shelter (tent, tarp ...) or a night under the stars, a mattress and a sleeping bag adapted to theOutdoor temperature (take into account the comfort temperature and not the limit/extreme temperature announced by the manufacturer ...) and the night in the open air!
To go further, find our dedicated articles
3/ Leave a few days: micro-adventure!
Roments of 2 to 4 days, by simple means, to discover our country.Some ideas: the tour of the Lizardrieux peninsula (4 days / easy) and the loop of the bequeath (4 days, easy) in Brittany;The pond and Monti (4 days, not very difficult) and the tip of Cap Corse (3 days, easy) on the island of beauty;The Basque cornice (2 days, easy) around Biarritz.
You can find all of our topos, in the list is called upon to increase over time, on the micro-adventure section of our website.
4/ Camper
Even the end of fall is ready for "long-term" treks, that is to say a week or more.The Jura lends itself well to All Saints' hikes, with for example segments of the Jurassic breakaway (22 days of dolle in Nyon) or the great crossing of the Jura (21 days of mandate in Culoz).
Around Lake Geneva, it is also possible to go on the first section of the GR5.
To read: Trek and food: which meals to choose?
5/ Train to orientation
Going for a short outing is a good pretext to revise the basic principles of orientation: Read an IGN card, know how to read a GPS, improvise a rescue route, estimate its speed of progression ....
