11- Hide and seek with the frogs
Start: Freycenet-la-Tour
At over 1,000 m above sea level, you will find a lovely family mountain bike route around the Barthes pond. You will even have the chance to play on a few mountain bike features set up in the forest!
- Distance
- 2.3 km
- Elevation gain
- +13 m
- Elevation loss
- -14 m
- Duration
- 20 min
Route on the map
Base map © OpenTopoMap (CC-BY-SA): route licensed under ETALAB-2.0 via Données : Comité Départemental Randonnée Pédestre Haute-Loire · FFRandonnée · sportsnature.hauteloire.fr — sous licence ETALAB 2.0.
The feel of the route
Étang des Barthes: Perched at more than 1,100 metres above sea level, the Barthes pond is a scenic, unusual site with a great diversity of animal and plant species. A herbarium has been compiled, recording the 293 plants present in 1900 at Freycenet-la-Tour.
The Barthes were also renowned for their famous frog fishing, which drew the “grenouilleurs” (frog-catchers). That was the name given to the villagers who, by age-old custom, came to draw on the resources of Mother Nature, the famous common frog
A pond, a maze, a play area, a small path on stilts, an observatory, a picnic area and little year-round residents (frogs, fish and birds) … for half an hour or half a day, this small corner of nature guarantees lovely moments with the family.
In pictures
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