DANCE OF THE ROCKS

2ND Edition

 

THE LANGUEDOC-ROUSSILLON REGION

ORIENTEERING ASSOCIATION

 

with the help of the clubs :  "Réseau Découverte des Pyrénées Audoises " – "Corbières Orientation Occitanie Raid Evasion " – "Gard Orientation – Nîmes  " – "Diabl'auvert - Vauvert  " – "Montpellier Sport d'Orientation " –

"Montpellier Université Club C.O. " – " Mende Orientation " – "Club Orientation Tout Espoir 66" –

"CSA CNEC  "

INVITES YOU ON THESDAY 18 AND WEDNESDAY 19 JULY 2006 TO COMPETE AT THE CAYLAR ON THE LARZAC PLATEAU

ON THE FAMOUS MAP "DANCE OF THE ROCKS"

 

Programme: Tuesday 18: classic length race (*)

                       Wednesday 19: classic length race

                       French national age categories

 

(*) last year, the first time we organised this event, we thought that runners might prefer to start off with a middle distance race after six consecutive days of orienteering in the Aveyron. This year the event will comprise two classic-distance races, giving you the chance to experience in full this beautiful technical terrain.

 

Contact   Event information

 

 

 

 

 

Between the Tarn gorges and the Cévennes hills….the Causses.

 

Great expanses of steppe-like terrain covered with boxwood and juniper. Strange groupings of dolomitic rock cover the ground, their jagged silhouettes forming strange shapes like the lunar landscape around Le Caylar. Battlements and towers of the templar villages of La Couvertoirade, Sainte Eulalie and La Cavalerie, the roofs of whose houses seem to take us back to the middle ages. Precipitous gorges surrounding these high plateaus and cutting them off from the rest of the world. The spectacular cirques of the winding river Vis (Navacelles, Vissec).

 

You are on the Grand Causse of Larzac, which covers over 1, 000 square km., accounting for a quarter of the whole area of main causses and ranging in height from 600 to 900 metres.

Some distances : Le  Caylar – London = 1077 km -  Brest = 1085km – Lille = 896km – Strasbourg = 868km – Paris = 680km – Bordeaux = 415km  Nice = 403km – Lyon = 380km – Clermont Ferrand = 266km – Toulouse = 204km - Nîmes = 130km - Montpellier = 72km  - The Mediterranean  = 60km 

 

 

      

Le Caylar

At 727 metres above sea level, this little capital of the southern Larzac areaguards the entrance to the plateau and to the grands causses area from the south. Le Caylar is surrounded by a strange chaos of dolomitic rocks of every shape and size.

Nearby also are   Roquefort – La Couvertoirade – the cirque of Navacelles – La Cavalerie – the Millau viaduct  and many other places of special interest.