Route Somme-Leuze 3 - red

There are 4 signposted MTB routes in Somme-Leuze, all of which start at Heure.

This route, red, is good for 20 km and 333 hm.

The other routes are each 9 km/160 m altitude (blue) , 12 km/170 m altitude (yellow) and 26 km/456 m altitude (green).

A combination of course 3 and 1 , where you switch from course 3 to course 1 at the Drêve de Waillet to continue course 3 on the return, is 29km/ 500hm .

The course starts in the parking lot near the Heure church.

We start with a one-kilometer climb, first on asphalt, but then switch to singletrack. We reach the top of a work of art by Les Sentiers d'Art: Le chemin des 4 lunes After a flat section, a dirt descent begins in Les Vennes up to the Le Bouchet stream, where we return to asphalt. Now it's 4 km uphill. Shortly before Baillonville we turn right onto a dirt road. After a left and a right turn we reach the Avenida de Waillet, then we reach the highest point of the promenade in the Bois d'Heure .

We stay on this plateau until Tige de Hogne where the road surface becomes asphalt. If we turn a little further to the left, a pleasant off-road descent to the Sinsin Cemetery begins. From the Rau de Blesset begins an all-terrain climb to 270m , followed by a descent that soon joins the N929 to Nettine. A detour to the Grotte ND du Rosaire is a nice break. We now begin the off-road climb of the Croix Maillard and again reach the Bois des Sarts at 270m.

There follows a 2 km descent to the Rau du Neuf Vivier , which we cross twice through the Bos d'Avennes . After a small climb of a few tens of meters in altitude, the off-road part ends and you quickly descend to the starting point on asphalt .

Also, check out the sightseeing information while you're there. They tell you what you can see!

01/2023