📈 Elevation Profile
🗺️ Stage Map
L’étape conduit à travers les collines boisées du Plantaurel jusqu’au Mas-d’Azil, célèbre pour sa grotte monumentale crossing par la route départementale — l’une des plus grandes cavernes d’Europe, longue de 420 mètres. Ce sanctuaire préhistorique a livré un mobilier exceptionnel : harpon en os, parures et galets peints aziliens vieux de 14 000 ans, témoins des premières sociétés de chasseurs-cueilleurs post-glaciaires.
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📎 Villages and Waypoints
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Montégut-Plantaurel · Start
Starting point of stage 9.
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3,6km
Monesple
Village on stage 9.
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7,8km
Pailhès
Village on stage 9.
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14km
Gabre
Village on stage 9.
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23,7km
Le Mas-d'Azil · End
End point of stage 9.
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⚠️ Practical Information
- DifficultyDifficult stage, crossing the Plantaurel ridges on steep trails with significant elevation change (D+907 m / D-959 m over 23.7 km). Good physical fitness required.
- Water pointsMontégut-Plantaurel (start)Le Mas-d'Azil (km 23,7)
- SuppliesLe Mas-d'Azil km 23,7 · town with shops, bakery
- AccommodationsWalkers' gîte and B&B rooms in Le Mas-d'Azil.
- Monuments & HeritageGrotte du Mas-d'Azil km 23,7 · 420-metre natural tunnel traversed by the Arize river and a departmental road — a Magdalenian prehistoric site that yielded the artefacts of the 'Azilian culture' (10,000 BC), listed as a historic monumentVillage du Mas-d'Azil km 23,7 · 14th-century fortified village, former Huguenot stronghold, prehistoric museum inside the cave
- Taxi / Retreat optionsTaxi Ariège — enquire at the Le Mas-d'Azil Tourist Office (05 61 69 99 90)
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