The Bertins on mountain bike
A discovery of the ancient hamlets of mountain pastures of farmers from Abriès. You will walk along a balcony trail overlooking the Guil and located at theheart of a Natura 2000 site.

Abriès

The Great Green Bush-Cricket

Pyrrhocoris apterus

Willow

Petrification
Description
At the top of the parking lot, follow the hairpin bend on the left and at the exit, immediately take the road going up on the right. Follow this road until it becomes a dirt road.
1 - From here, turn left and take a rising false flat track. Leave a sheep pen on the right and follow the track going down.
2 - Reach a cabin, turn right onto the quickly shrinking track leading to the bottom of the valley in the forgotten hamlet of the Bertins.
3 - Reach the GR58, turn left and take the single track. First, follow the bottom of the valley, then join the left mountain slope left continue on the balcony trail. Cross the hamlet of Malrif and after a technical passage (porting is possible), find a balcony single track. Stay on the mountain slope until reaching Abriès and the parking area.
Altimetric profile
Recommandations
From the same car park, it is possible to walk to the Bertins through a more pastoral path. Follow the route described above. At a large hairpin bend on the right of the track, take the left path and regain directly the Tirail. From there, turn right, climb and reach the Canal Neuf, turn left and follow the canal to the Bertins.
Information desks
House of the Queyras Regional Nature Park
3580 Route de l’Izoard, 05350 Arvieux
http://www.pnr-queyras.fr/
pnrq@pnr-queyras.fr
+33 (0)4 92 46 88 20
The House of the Queyras Regional Nature Park is closed to the public.
OTI du Guillestrois et du Queyras
Maison du Tourisme du Queyras, 05350 Château-Ville-Vieille
http://www.guillestroisqueyras.com
info@guillestroisqueyras.com
+33 (0)4 92 46 76 18
Transport
05 Voyageur: 04 92 502 505 Tourist Office of Queyras : 04 92 46 76 18
Access and parking
Reach Abriès, park on the left just before the bridge of Torrent de Bouchet.
Parking :
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