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Descent towards Draix – Les Terres Noires - Slides loop from Marcoux

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Provence-Alpes-Côte D'Azur

Provence

Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur

Digne-Les-Bains

Marcoux

Descent towards Draix – Les Terres Noires - Slides loop from Marcoux

Hard

4.4

(32)

282

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Descent towards Draix – Les Terres Noires - Slides loop from Marcoux

04:06

38.1km

1,030m

Mountain biking

Hard mountain bike ride. Very good fitness required. Advanced riding skills necessary. Some portions of the route may require you to push your bike. The starting point of the route is accessible with public transport.

Last updated: August 24, 2026

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Includes a very steep uphill segment

You may need to push your bike.

After 29.2 km for 264 m

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Bus stop

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1.42 km

Stream crossing in Réserve Naturelle Géologique de Haute-Provence

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Fancy a little adventure? The signposted MTB route leads right through the stream. When we were there, the rocks were not slippery and the water was only ankle-deep. So it's quite doable

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20.5 km

Descent towards Draix

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After the long uphill, the first DH passage begins here. First narrow and woody, then partly more open over the legendary black volcanic rock. In places, the trail narrowly passes large ledges and edges.

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27.6 km

Archail

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Archail is a village of 23 inhabitants, located in Provence - Côte d'Azur, situated in front of the Black Mountains of Provence. The French call this place, “Terres Noires”, and …

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29.2 km

Ascent through the Black Earth

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Here you are really in the middle of it all, the uphill passages are really steep. Chapeau, who can do it without an engine.

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29.4 km

Toboggans Trail

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29.8 km

Les Terres Noires - Slides

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This magnificent course is very technical and challenging, but it is a mountain biker's paradise.

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29.9 km

The Geological Slides of the Haute-Provence Nature Reserve

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Spectacular, varied and magnificent environment and grandiose descents.

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32.2 km

Latty wood trail

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38.1 km

End point

Bus stop

Way Types & Surfaces

Way Types

23.3 km

4.71 km

4.69 km

4.62 km

574 m

242 m

Surfaces

17.5 km

9.47 km

6.07 km

3.55 km

1.20 km

334 m

< 100 m

Elevation

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Highest point (1,100 m)

Lowest point (690 m)

Weather

Thursday 3 September

32°C

11°C

0 %

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Max wind speed: 10.0 km/h

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Comments

April 29, 2023,VTT : Les Terres Noires

Marking 17, black. Physical and impressive in places, especially the "Toboggans" trail which slaloms and undulates on these dark marls. Even if there is no real technical difficulty, it freaked me out a bit in places... I pushed a lot of times 🫣 A great outing, started in the sun and finished in a light rain. I understand why the …

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September 20, 2024,Les Terres Noires − Départ Camping du Bourg - Balise N°17

Discovery of the Terres Noires during an Enduro mountain bike ride.

For this, I left from the Camping du Bourg (a very nice campsite, to do again!).

Once arrived in the Terres Noires, I followed route n°17.

It was a great circuit, very technical, with quite tough climbs and very committed technical descents!
This route is clearly not for beginners, …

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Descent towards Draix – Les Terres Noires - Slides loop from Marcoux

Stream crossing in Réserve Naturelle Géologique de Haute-Provence

Descent towards Draix

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Toboggans Trail

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