Trail de l'Épine - L'Épinette 2026
Forecast published: 39°F feels-like at the coldest, 47°F at the warmest, no notable rain.
Here you'll find the elevation profile, an estimated finish time based on your UTMB Index and details of the aid station to plan your nutrition and hydration segment by segment.
What's your time based on your UTMB?
Times estimated by the RAVIT model, learned from real ultra-trail finish times. Enter your UTMB Index (utmb.world) to get a personalized estimate.
Cut-off times and crew - Trail de l'Épine - L'Épinette · 2026
Data from the official race rules, checked for every edition. The race rules prevail. Positions are interpolated along the GPX track and are a guide, not official course marking.
What you'll find at each aid station
| Product | km 5km 5.0 |
|---|---|
| Water | available |
| Brand products | available |
Elevation profile
The course and its aid stations
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Sources and method
- Time projection — for lack of results on this race, times by UTMB Index rely on a Riegel law whose exponent is adjusted to elevation gain — the model's fallback, not its usual method. Peter Riegel (Wikipedia)
- Trail nutrition — hourly targets for carbohydrate, fluid and sodium follow the commonly accepted ultra-endurance guidance. La Clinique du Coureur — Fuelling in trail running
- Course, aid stations and cut-offs — taken from the event's official rules, which prevail in case of any discrepancy. Official site — Trail de l'Épine - L'Épinette
Weather for Trail de l'Épine - L'Épinette
Section-by-section forecasts for Trail de l'Épine - L'Épinette, calculated at the estimated passing time: feels-like temperature, rain or snow, wind and thunderstorms. Three models — AROME (Météo-France), ICON (DWD) and ECMWF IFS — served from the finest to the farthest-reaching.
Forecasts for a 600 UTMB Index runner, at their estimated passage time. Start Sun, 11/01 10:15 AM: Hazy sky, 44°F. Coldest: 39°F feels-like at Ravitaillement du km 5 (Sun, 11/01 10:42 AM); warmest: 47°F at Arrivée château de Reinach (Sun, 11/01 11:10 AM). No notable rain forecast on the course. Gusts up to 19 mph at Ravitaillement du km 5.
Forecast, not guaranteed: in the mountains a model describes a grid of several hundred meters, not the slope you're on.
Weather data: Météo-France (AROME), DWD (ICON), ECMWF (IFS) — CC BY 4.0, via Open-Meteo
Frequently asked questions
How many checkpoints?
Trail de l'Épine - L'Épinette has 2 checkpoints: 1 aid station and 1 checkpoint with undocumented contents. Details are in the two tables above.
What's the longest segment without aid?
The one leading to Ravitaillement du km 5: 5.0 km and 145 m elevation gain. That's the one to load up for first.
How do I find the exact location of an aid station?
The Google Maps icon in the “Access” column opens the aid station's location: handy for planning your crew's routes.
What distance and elevation gain?
Trail de l'Épine - L'Épinette is 10 km long with 250 m of elevation gain.
How long to finish?
With a UTMB Index of 600 (average runner), the estimated time is around 0h56 for Trail de l'Épine - L'Épinette.
What's the weather forecast?
Forecast published: 39°F feels-like at the coldest, 47°F at the warmest, no notable rain. RAVIT publishes the weather for Trail de l'Épine - L'Épinette section by section: feels-like temperature, rain or snow, wind and storms, at the estimated passage time. Forecasts come from AROME (Météo-France), ICON (DWD) and ECMWF IFS, refreshed several times a day.
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