Lion-Shaped Rock Formation – Apremont gorge loop from Réserve biologique intégrale de la Tillaie

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Lion-Shaped Rock Formation – Apremont gorge loop from Réserve biologique intégrale de la Tillaie

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Lion-Shaped Rock Formation – Apremont gorge loop from Réserve biologique intégrale de la Tillaie

03:04

10.9km

160m

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Moderate hike. Good fitness required. Mostly accessible paths. Sure-footedness required. The starting point of the route is right next to a parking lot.

Last updated: August 7, 2026

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Réserve de biosphère de Fontainebleau et du Gâtinais

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3.73 km

View of the Fontainebleau Forest

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5.41 km

View from the Rocks of Fontainebleau

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We are there on one of the highest points of the forest of Fontainebleau. From the top of the rocks, you can contemplate the forest massif, after climbing the slope. The reward is well worth it!

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5.86 km

Viewpoint

8.64 km

Apremont gorge

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Here is a very nice passage of the Denecourt-Colinet trail n ° 6, which overhangs the forest and makes us walk on huge rocks.

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8.94 km

View of the Fontainebleau Forest from the Caverne des Brigands

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Here is another superb viewpoint over the forest of Fontainebleau, on the Barbizon side.

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9.59 km

View of the Boulders in Fontainebleau Forest

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10.0 km

The gigantic rocks of the Barbizon heights

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Exciting way to immerse yourself in the rocky landscape. Proper shoes necessary, sticks superfluous - you need your hands here and there to support the entire section.

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Discovering 1/4 de la foret de Bière

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[The Mare aux Enées (sic), place of questing and relay when the assembly for hunting with hounds is in Chailly, at the Table du Roi or at the Hautes-Loges. De Salnove, to clarify, adds: At the
Mare aux Enées, in the Ronde route. You have to understand near the Mare aux Evées, for example at the Berceau crossroads.
Evée, evée? place where fish lay their eggs.
Pond completely transformed by the work carried out during the reign of Louis-Philippe. The aim of these works was to clean up the marshy territory surrounding it and to ensure the flow of the pond by creating a stream, which, originally, caused flooding: what we have hard to believe today.
Viewpoint from Camp de Chailly. [During the war of 1870, military strategists set up an “observation post” there to monitor the possible arrival, on horseback of course, of the German invaders.
the Cuvier Chatillon, legendary place for rock climbers [History of rock climbing: In 1874, the French Alpine Club (CAF) was founded in Paris, some members began to take an interest in the blocks of Fontainebleau. In 1908, in the Bas Cuvier sector, Jacques Wehrlin crossed a crack using nailed shoes which today bears his name (listed as grade 3 today).
In 1910, the group of rock climbers took shape, which included climbers who had marked their time,
such as Wherlin or the Lépiney brothers. The group is fighting to have the usefulness of climbing in the Fontainebleau forest recognized as a training ground by the high-ranking Cafist authorities. In 1914, level 4 was reached by Jacques de Lépiney at the Prestat fissure (using espadrilles with high uppers).
Founded in 1924, the Bleau Group (GDB) included the best Parisian mountaineers of the time. They gained in technique on the blocks of Bleau, before attacking the cliffs of the Seine, the Yonne, the Suisse Normande… (story to follow on randosacaudos.blogspot.com/2015/02/nouveau -tmf-etape-2-bis.html).
[pins with blisters. Grafting pine trees in the Fontainebleau forest
the Revue Forestière Française: it mentions on several occasions the grafting of pine trees. However, more than a hundred years ago, the question had already caught the attention of foresters. An article published in the Annales Forestières in April 1843 (MARRIER DE BOISDHYVER. - Grafting of pines in the forest of Fontainebleau) gave interesting details on the herbaceous grafting which was practiced. “This graft can only be carried out during spring vegetation, when the terminal shoot has acquired two thirds or three quarters of its elongation. It is done in splits on subjects three to six or eight years old from sowing.

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