Trail de l'Épine - La Crête 2026
Forecast published: 36°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 2 aid stations 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 - La Crête · 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 7km 7.0 | km 20km 20.0 |
|---|---|---|
| Water | available | available |
| Brand products | available | 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 - La Crête
Weather for Trail de l'Épine - La Crête
Section-by-section forecasts for Trail de l'Épine - La Crête, 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 09:30 AM: Overcast, 44°F. Coldest: 36°F feels-like at Ravitaillement du km 7 (Sun, 11/01 10:17 AM); warmest: 47°F at Arrivée château de Reinach (Sun, 11/01 12:12 PM). No notable rain forecast on the course. Gusts up to 17 mph at Ravitaillement du km 20.
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 - La Crête has 3 checkpoints: 2 aid stations 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 20: 13.0 km and 701 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 - La Crête is 24 km long with 1100 m of elevation gain.
How long to finish?
With a UTMB Index of 600 (average runner), the estimated time is around 2h43 for Trail de l'Épine - La Crête.
What's the weather forecast?
Forecast published: 36°F feels-like at the coldest, 47°F at the warmest, no notable rain. RAVIT publishes the weather for Trail de l'Épine - La Crête 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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