La Petite Trotte à Léon (PTL)

Characteristics of the 2012 PTL^TM

A team ultra endurance event

La Petite Trotte à Léon is an "enlarged Tour du Mont Blanc", allowing the route to cross, far from beaten tracks, the massifs surrounding the highest summit of the Alps. This Tour du Mont Blanc takes place on paths sometimes difficult, even non-existent; it includes the crossing of numerous cols (passes) and summits of between 2500 and 3000 metres altitude.
This event is without classification, it is to be realised in complete autonomy by inseparable teams of 2 or 3 participants.

To try the adventure: it is necessary to have experience in endurance sports, a good knowledge of the mountain environment and the topography, a sense of the solidarity and a team spirit.

The route: it is different from one year to the next; it is not way-marked but it is mapped (GPS tracks and maps supplied).

The programme: 290 kilometres with about 22 000 metres of positive height gain.

Maximum authorised time: 138 hours

Start: Chamonix Monday August 27th at 22:00.

Finish: Chamonix before 16:00 Sunday September 2nd 2012.

Maximum number of teams: 80

Team composition: each team must consist of at least one UTMB® or Tor des Géants finisher (this clause is widened for 2012 to include competitors who finished the 2011 «Défi de l’Oisans»).

Race tactics: teams manage their own progression, refreshments and rest time as they wish. To do this they must use the local infrastructure of refuges and villages (no back-up vehicles or assistance allowed).