BLUE WOLF TREKS

      

    Located at the South-East of Lyon and South of Grenoble, this massif of the pre-Alps is well known around the world and has much to offer in terms of sport activities.
    The walls of its belt individualize it from the surrounding regions. They make it a true natural citadel, voted for its defensive qualities as one of the French Resistance bastions and for territory reconquest during World War Two.
    Its most originals physical characteristics, the Vercors owes it to limestone its main rock. It is this limestone which, fractured, undermined by erosion, gashed by the rivers, nibbled to its heart by the water, has fathered all these naturals phenomenons which give this mountain countless spectaculars settings : vertiginous cliffs, imposing cirques, point of peaks, deep gorges, countless caves, unfathomable pits and a maze of underground tunnels. As many characteristics that personalize it, distinguish it from its neighbours massifs and have given it an exceptional tourist reputation.
    Under its harsh outside, this fortress conceals within, a middle range mountain with a relief arrange in cleared plateau and cradle valley dressed with thick forest and grassland, where the villages are welcoming and the landscapes favourable for rest.

      

    The Vercors is one of the rare massifs to account for five wild "ongules" : the red deer, the roe deer, the moufflon, the chamois and the ibex. But this isn't the only interest of its fauna. The predators are well represented as much in the air than on the ground, the golden eagle and the wolf being their most beautiful ambassadors. The reintroduction of a vulture, the fawn-coloured one, only expanded an already consistent fauna.
    We can't talk about the Vercors' flora, without talking of the forest. It is occupying 60% of the territory and can be made of broad-leaved (beech, oak), of conifer (sprut, fir, pine), or both. On its ridges and in the Hauts Plateaux du Vercors Natural Reserve, the forest gives way to mountain pastures used by the breeders for their cows and sheeps. In the valley of the South we cultivate vine and lavander. In the North one, this is milk breeding which rules.
    As we walk down one of Vercors many footpath, we can admire splendid flowers such as Martagon Lily, Edelweiss, Pheasant's Eye, Wild Daffodil, different Orchids and many more...