Les Hautes Plaines

Les Hautes Plaines is a climb in the region Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. It is 3.3 mi long and bridges 840 ft of vertical ascent with an average gradient of 4.8%, resulting in a difficulty score of 131. The top of the ascent is located at 1949 ft above sea level. Climbfinder users shared 1 review/story of this climb and uploaded 3 photos.

Road names: Route d'Oraison

3.0 by Andre

This is an automatic translation, the original language is: Dutch.

It’s actually a pretty nice little climb with plenty of shade. It’s what you’d call an easy climb—it’s never steep and doesn’t have any particularly steep sections. I climbed it on my MTB with two front chainrings and never had to switch to the small chainring. At the top, you reach a sort of plateau with a short descent at first, followed by another gentle climb. There are often fast French cars on the col.... read more