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Exploring the Via Ferrata in Planfoy: Walkways, Monkey Bridge, Ladder, and Zip line

Walkways Monkey Bridge Ladder Zip line 2 1 0 1

Features

2 via ferrata: the Via Ferrat’Adults and the Via Ferrat’Children “Les Pillots” intended for 6-12 year olds with a minimum height of 1m10.

The municipality has created a “vertical activity center” on the site.
Free, it allows you to practice a set of sports activities related to verticality: Via Ferrata Children and Adults, Zipline, Mountain Course Adults.

Via Ferrata tips

Take your mountain bike and also visit the Pilat regional park.

The via ferrata is free. If you need, there are plenty of guides available as well as rental gear.

Via Quote for Adult

Physics 1 Gas 2 Plain Type: 1 Technical 3 Rating Fairly Difficult

Information

tourist office of Planfoy.

Length and Altitude

Elevation: 100 m.
Length: 600m.
Start: 800 meters
Arrival: 900 meters

Period

Open all year. Not passable at night and when the route is snowy or icy.

Hourly

Via Ferrata departure: 660 m
Elevation: 235 m.
Cable length: 600m.
South-east exposure on gneiss rocks.

The Via Ferrat’Adultes (600 m long) allows a round trip of 3 to 4 hours and the
Via Ferrat’Enfants (250 m long) 2 hours.

By the road

RN 82 from St-Etienne, direction Col de la République and Annonay. 8 good kilometers from St-Etienne.

By Train or Bus

TGV to St-Etienne if not on strike. See with the SNCF: schedules and prices.

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Access

A 45-minute approach walk from the village of Planfoy.

Carefully drop off your titin in the parking lot near the cemetery!
From the village of Planfoy, a “yellow and white” beacon path takes you to the via ferrata after 30 to 45 minutes on foot. Direction the pole of vertical activities.

Via Ferrata

A platform at the start of the Via for adults provides more comfort for boarding, and those “in a hurry” can access the Via via an intermediate entrance.

The beginning is in the forest, easy. There comes a more technical passage which continues with a large, fairly easy climb, a small footbridge, then a descent to the large 17 m footbridge. Once on the other side, great nice climb to the top of the via ferrata.

Superb setting in the Gouffre d’Enfer valley with its two stone dams and the Roche Corbière climbing site.

On the Children’s Via Ferrata: a mixed apparatus of 30 m, consisting of a suspended net, jumps, a rest platform and swings replaces the forest course originally installed in 2006. For children , the via ends by going from tree to tree with footbridges.

Back

Fairly easy to find your way around.

Or sleep

Camping, gites in St Genest Malifaux (4 km) and plenty of opportunities on site

video by alain c, Youtube

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2023-08-19 06:04:47
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