Trail Vielha-Molières 3010 Edició 2021
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 26.32 mi
- Elevation gain
- 12,388 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Difficult
- Elevation loss
- 12,388 ft
- Max elevation
- 9,849 ft
- TrailRank
- 37
- Min elevation
- 3,185 ft
- Trail type
- Loop
- Coordinates
- 15271
- Uploaded
- July 19, 2021
- Recorded
- July 2021
near Vielha, Catalunya (España)
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Itinerary description
After no 2020 edition of the race, the mountain marathon Vielha-Molières 3010 promised for the long awaited 2021 edition a sunny yet challenging day of mountaneering.
Starting off from Vielha's central church to the rhythm of AC/DC's Highway to Hell, all participants knew the feat they were about to undertake. A first, direct ascent with a hidden vertical kilometer to the Montcorbison (2172m) through the Bassa d'Oles followed by a fast concatenation of ridges through Letassi (2177m) and Montpius (2276m) only to go back down a technical and slippery descent down to Artiga de Lin. After that, the ascent to the highest point of the race, the Tuc de Molières (3010m) begins. Slow and with varying terrain from the grassy, meadowy starting appearance to the rocky, lunar-like mountain top with close and clear views of the Aneto just behind.
Once at the top of the race, the descent to Conangles starts off with some technical and rope-requiring sections and the occasional snowfield to then transition into a fun and fast, sometimes rocky, long downhill passage to the last time-cut checkpoint.
Then, once your ego has all but disappeared, the final ascent up to the Port de Vielha (2424m) will test your remaining mental fortitude. After that, the final and never-ending denoument to the race sees you enter back to Vielha one anew. You can be sure that after the 43.9km and 4397m d+ something inside you will have changed somewhere along the way.
Starting off from Vielha's central church to the rhythm of AC/DC's Highway to Hell, all participants knew the feat they were about to undertake. A first, direct ascent with a hidden vertical kilometer to the Montcorbison (2172m) through the Bassa d'Oles followed by a fast concatenation of ridges through Letassi (2177m) and Montpius (2276m) only to go back down a technical and slippery descent down to Artiga de Lin. After that, the ascent to the highest point of the race, the Tuc de Molières (3010m) begins. Slow and with varying terrain from the grassy, meadowy starting appearance to the rocky, lunar-like mountain top with close and clear views of the Aneto just behind.
Once at the top of the race, the descent to Conangles starts off with some technical and rope-requiring sections and the occasional snowfield to then transition into a fun and fast, sometimes rocky, long downhill passage to the last time-cut checkpoint.
Then, once your ego has all but disappeared, the final ascent up to the Port de Vielha (2424m) will test your remaining mental fortitude. After that, the final and never-ending denoument to the race sees you enter back to Vielha one anew. You can be sure that after the 43.9km and 4397m d+ something inside you will have changed somewhere along the way.
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hi i wanted to do this route, but i have a few questions, how long did it take you? and do you think a fairly inexperienced person can do it?
Hi Valentina, this route was used for the 2021 edition of the Vielha-Molières marathon, and as such it is very demanding from a physical point of view, but in terms of its technical aspects, it requires little experience. The median finishing time was about 10 hours.