What is nice with the O’ Bivwak trek is that sites and routes regularly change. After the Ardèche Mountains last year, it is in the Vercors drômois that enthusiasts of orienteering races will meet this year.

In May, when the desire to walk, run and go hiking titillates passionate people, they will set out in teams of two and for two days, with only a simple map to put together the puzzle of the beacons.

Even if the start occurs at La Chapelle-en-Vercors, it is only after a four kilometer connection route that the real depart is given. The essence of this trek, unique in France, and which competes with the big European treks, (Great Britain, Switzerland, Scandinavia…), is to be able to deviate from beaten tracks.

Before the meeting at the summit for the huge bivouac in the evening of the first stage, it is about finding one’s way in this universe sculptured by limestone through sinkholes, lapiaz, hollows and bumps. The most inexpressible of pleasures being able to sense the beacons. There…, behind this ground encroachment, in this part of the forest …

In this vast natural reserve, also called Hauts Plateaux, one can pass from open spaces to deep forests. Always ready for a meeting with exceptional fauna which goes from deer, mouflon and ibex, to numerous birds of prey including golden eagles, without forgetting the rare species of typical artico-alpine flora. Pure happiness at the rhythm of the race.