Col de Rousset

Col de Rousset
Pass height	1254 m
Department	Drôme
expansion	Pass road, summit tunnel
Mountains	Vercors
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Coordinates	44 ° 50 '26 " N , 5 ° 24' 22" E Coordinates: 44 ° 50 '26 " N , 5 ° 24' 22" E

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The Col de Rousset is a mountain pass in the Vercors . It connects Die with Vassieux-en-Vercors and thus Provence with the southern plateau of the Vercors.

The road overcomes the pass at an altitude of 1254 meters with the help of a tunnel built in 1979, which replaced a parallel previous building from 1866. The actual top of the pass is at an altitude of 1367 meters and can only be reached on foot.

The Col de Rousset forms the climatic boundary between the moister northern Alps and the drier and sunnier southern Alps. At the pass there is a ski area with a chair lift and six drag lifts. It is the starting point for crossings of the Vercors by ski or mountain bike. In 1984, 1996 and 1998 the Tour de France led over him, for the mountain classification he is classified as a mountain in the second category.

At the end of the 1990s, some wild griffon vultures from Yugoslavia were released on the western slope of the pass and have now reproduced well. You can often see them circling over the pass, but also throughout the Vercors and in the Drôme department . The responsible organization has agreed with farms that provide carcasses for feeding (including in the Chamaloc area near Die). There is an exhibition with video in the town of Rémuzat.

Web links

Information on griffon vultures in the area from the Association "Vautours en Baronnies": Maison des Vautours in Rémuzat (French)

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View from the Col de Rousset