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Riolan: Canyon Start
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Approach: Straight down to the creek.
Tour: 1st part partly in the basement, no rappel at normal water level. With a lot of water 5 rappels. Exits with the arched bridge. Then running section. 2nd part increasingly narrower as it progresses. No too high rappels. Some slides and possible jumps after prior inspection. The water is mostly naturally cloudy due to the suspended mud.

Riolan: Parking at Entry
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Comment: Parkplatz beim Einstieg zur Riolan
Access: From Nice, head north on the N 202 towards Digne. After about 17 km, turn left at the Charles Albert bridge over the Var and take the D 17 up to Gilette and continue on a winding road behind the Esteron valley to Roquesteron (approx. 26 km from the Var bridge). 3.5 km after Roquesteron, turn left onto the D 10. After another 3.5 km, cross the bridge at the Riolan exit. Park your car at the exit. Take the second car back to the D 17 and turn left to Sigale. Through the village and uphill in serpentines. After about 3.5 km from Sigale we pass the old arched bridge deep below us over the Riolan and 500m further on we come to the upper parking lot (yellowed canyoning sign).
Return: Before the road bridge right up or after the bridge right to the road.

Riolan: Parking at Exit
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Comment: Parkplatz beim Ausstieg der Riolan
Access: From Nice, head north on the N 202 towards Digne. After about 17 km, turn left at the Charles Albert bridge over the Var and take the D 17 up to Gilette and continue on a winding road behind the Esteron valley to Roquesteron (approx. 26 km from the Var bridge). 3.5 km after Roquesteron, turn left onto the D 10. After another 3.5 km, cross the bridge at the Riolan exit. Park your car at the exit. Take the second car back to the D 17 and turn left to Sigale. Through the village and uphill in serpentines. After about 3.5 km from Sigale we pass the old arched bridge deep below us over the Riolan and 500m further on we come to the upper parking lot (yellowed canyoning sign).
Return: Before the road bridge right up or after the bridge right to the road.

Riolan: Canyon End
Return: Before the road bridge right up or after the bridge right to the road.

Clue de la Maglia: Canyon Start
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Approach: Follow the road briefly out of the valley and change to a sand road at the information sign. Follow the road until just before its exit and turn right at the signs onto a good path. Descend via many hairpin bends until a path branches off to the right just before reaching the streambed. Follow this path to the entry point at a large basin. You can also do the tour with just one car. Then park the car in La Giandola near the bridge and hike up the beautiful wall above the canyon - takes about 80 minutes.
Tour: Of the 20 or so places, you can slide and/or jump at least 15. It is better to go at inopportune times, as there are many groups (the first groups usually appear just after 9:00). At the key point, the rappel into the cave, you can climb up to the right and rappel through a hole or even at the exit of the canopy. Good overtaking possibility. About 100m later, there is an exit on the right up to the road. Two traverses are set up as via ferrata.

Clue de la Maglia: Parking at Entry
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Comment: Einstiegsparkplatz
Access: Above Breil-sur-Roya, follow the D2204 towards Sospel. After two hairpin bends, take a sharp right at some garbage cans and follow the mostly single-lane road to a large signposted parking lot.
Return: After a nice 5m jump, a clear path leads off to the left, which you follow to the mule track above the canyon. Follow this out of the valley down into the village.

Clue de la Maglia: Parking at Exit
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Comment: Ausstiegsparkplatz
Access: Above Breil-sur-Roya, follow the D2204 towards Sospel. After two hairpin bends, take a sharp right at some garbage cans and follow the mostly single-lane road to a large signposted parking lot.
Return: After a nice 5m jump, a clear path leads off to the left, which you follow to the mule track above the canyon. Follow this out of the valley down into the village.

Clue de la Maglia: Canyon End
Return: After a nice 5m jump, a clear path leads off to the left, which you follow to the mule track above the canyon. Follow this out of the valley down into the village.

Desteou: Canyon Start
Approach: We take this northeasterly track, leaving the stone bridge over the Désteou on the left and continue uphill. After several switchbacks, we reach a plateau at 520 m a.s.l. and, keeping on the path in northeastern direction, we come to the small water intake of the Désteou (entry).
Tour: Before the narrowing is an exit to the left up possible. 20 meters up a gravel slope, you come to a path that moves to the right and descends high above the canyon to the ascent slope.\nThe stream presents itself in midsummer only as a trickle.

Desteou: Canyon End
Return: After the last rappel about 3 min. in the streambed, until you can climb about 10 meters on the left at a tree with twin trunks on the right edge of the streambed (2008) on a path that leads back downstream to the slope, over which we come back to the vehicle.

Aiglun: Canyon Start
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Approach: From the parking lot, walk a few more meters towards the village and then take the first dirt road to the right (marked "75"). Via "75a" you reach a ridge that offers a view of the entrance to the Aiglun gorge. You come to an information board. At the "75b" marker, turn right off the hiking trail onto a path and head southwest down to the stream. If you only have one vehicle, you can reach the entry from the village of Aiglun on a mountain path over the ridge of Mont St Martin (1257 m), see also wikiloc link.
Tour: With a catchment area of 170 square kilometers, the attractive canyon with its narrow wood-blocked passages is life-threatening when the water swells. Similar to the neighboring Riolan, the water is regularly cloudy, so that the few climbing options must be sounded out beforehand. In some places, fixed ropes are used across and above the chute to avoid the arduous and sometimes difficult climbing over the blocked wood in the chute.

Aiglun: Canyon End
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Return: 100 m before the road bridge, the sign "Sortie" obligatorily indicates the exit. You climb up a good path (beautiful views!), then see the village of Aiglun at the top and then reach it in a few minutes.

Aiglun: Parking at Entry
2026-05-27: Automatisch importiert von Descente-Canyon.com für Canyon Aiglun Entrée dans l’eau à 12:30, eau très douce à notre grande surprise, avons évité les passages encaissés de la 1ere étroiture par la MC en...
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Access: From Nice on the N 202 northwards in the direction of Digne. After about 17 km on the bridge Charles Albert over the Var turn left and the D 17 up to Gilette and on winding road further behind in the Esteron valley to Roquesteron (about 26 km from Var bridge). 3.5 km after Roquesteron turn left onto the D 10, after another 3.5 km cross the bridge at the exit of the Riolan, after another 4.5 km you reach the village of Aiglun. At the western exit of the village there is a large parking lot also for the gorges. With the second vehicle you go back to the D 17 and there turn left to Sigale. From here along above the Clue de Riolan to the road junction at Pont de Miolans (7 km on the D 17). Here turn left onto the D 2211 and after about 4 km turn left to the village of Sallagriffon. Park the second car in the large parking lot in front of the village.
Return: 100 m before the road bridge, the sign "Sortie" obligatorily indicates the exit. You climb up a good path (beautiful views!), then see the village of Aiglun at the top and then reach it in a few minutes.

Aiglun: Parking at Exit
Access: From Nice on the N 202 northwards in the direction of Digne. After about 17 km on the bridge Charles Albert over the Var turn left and the D 17 up to Gilette and on winding road further behind in the Esteron valley to Roquesteron (about 26 km from Var bridge). 3.5 km after Roquesteron turn left onto the D 10, after another 3.5 km cross the bridge at the exit of the Riolan, after another 4.5 km you reach the village of Aiglun. At the western exit of the village there is a large parking lot also for the gorges. With the second vehicle you go back to the D 17 and there turn left to Sigale. From here along above the Clue de Riolan to the road junction at Pont de Miolans (7 km on the D 17). Here turn left onto the D 2211 and after about 4 km turn left to the village of Sallagriffon. Park the second car in the large parking lot in front of the village.
Return: 100 m before the road bridge, the sign "Sortie" obligatorily indicates the exit. You climb up a good path (beautiful views!), then see the village of Aiglun at the top and then reach it in a few minutes.

Haute Borne: Canyon Start
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Approach: From the hamlet of Les Chambons, follow the little road - across the Borne - for about 1 km (you can also park the car here), where you then take a forest road on the left down to the river.
Tour: Charming forest gorge in granite rock, little cut, with some longer walking passages, but also nice possible jumps. Exit possibility on the right up to Chazalettes after the longer narrow section with final 3 m jump. ATTENTION: If, during the last jump, you decide not to do it from 8 m but to descend to the origin of the waterfall and jump from there, be very careful of the siphon that follows the water level. If you take the origin of the waterfall as the first point of reference, upstream there is a slab about 3 m long and then a rock 2 m high in the streambed. At the base of this rock, the siphon sucks strongly.... Caution

Haute Borne: Canyon End
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Return: Turn right about 100 m before the bridge (after Borne has circled the castle rock). If you have not parked a second vehicle here, from the village of Borne, following the road to the right for about 100 m, you can take a path in a northeasterly direction (GR 72) to reach the hamlet of Chazalettes and from there continue on the little road to the starting point (about 6 km in 1½ hours).

Haute Borne: Alternative Canyon End
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Comment: (descente_2)
Return: Turn right about 100 m before the bridge (after Borne has circled the castle rock). If you have not parked a second vehicle here, from the village of Borne, following the road to the right for about 100 m, you can take a path in a northeasterly direction (GR 72) to reach the hamlet of Chazalettes and from there continue on the little road to the starting point (about 6 km in 1½ hours).

Haute Borne: Parking at Entry
Comment: (descente_3)
Access: Leave the Rhone Valley freeway A-7 about 20 km after Valence and drive west on the N-304 via Privas to Aubenas. From there, the journey continues on the N-102 in a northwesterly direction to Le Puy and then through the Ardeche valley about 12 km upstream to Lalevade. Here you take the D-5 to Jaujac, turn right (now 6 km after Lalavade) after the village onto the D-19 and climb the Col de la Croix de Bauzon (1308 m). 3 km after the mountain pass, take the D-24 to the left (southwards) and 100 meters further on take the first road to the right to the hamlet of Les Chambons.Here is a good place to park the car. If you have a second car, you can park it at the canyon exit at the bridge below the old castle. To get there, continue south on the D-24 over the Col de Meyrand (beautiful view!) and turn right at the village of Loubaresse on a narrow road (D-301) and drive down to the Borne (10 km in total).
Return: Turn right about 100 m before the bridge (after Borne has circled the castle rock). If you have not parked a second vehicle here, from the village of Borne, following the road to the right for about 100 m, you can take a path in a northeasterly direction (GR 72) to reach the hamlet of Chazalettes and from there continue on the little road to the starting point (about 6 km in 1½ hours).

Haute Borne: Parking at Entry1
Comment: Emplacement de stationnement autorisé. (descente)
Access: Leave the Rhone Valley freeway A-7 about 20 km after Valence and drive west on the N-304 via Privas to Aubenas. From there, the journey continues on the N-102 in a northwesterly direction to Le Puy and then through the Ardeche valley about 12 km upstream to Lalevade. Here you take the D-5 to Jaujac, turn right (now 6 km after Lalavade) after the village onto the D-19 and climb the Col de la Croix de Bauzon (1308 m). 3 km after the mountain pass, take the D-24 to the left (southwards) and 100 meters further on take the first road to the right to the hamlet of Les Chambons.Here is a good place to park the car. If you have a second car, you can park it at the canyon exit at the bridge below the old castle. To get there, continue south on the D-24 over the Col de Meyrand (beautiful view!) and turn right at the village of Loubaresse on a narrow road (D-301) and drive down to the Borne (10 km in total).

Haute Borne: Parking at Exit
Comment: Emplacement de stationnement autorisé. (descente)
Access: Leave the Rhone Valley freeway A-7 about 20 km after Valence and drive west on the N-304 via Privas to Aubenas. From there, the journey continues on the N-102 in a northwesterly direction to Le Puy and then through the Ardeche valley about 12 km upstream to Lalevade. Here you take the D-5 to Jaujac, turn right (now 6 km after Lalavade) after the village onto the D-19 and climb the Col de la Croix de Bauzon (1308 m). 3 km after the mountain pass, take the D-24 to the left (southwards) and 100 meters further on take the first road to the right to the hamlet of Les Chambons.Here is a good place to park the car. If you have a second car, you can park it at the canyon exit at the bridge below the old castle. To get there, continue south on the D-24 over the Col de Meyrand (beautiful view!) and turn right at the village of Loubaresse on a narrow road (D-301) and drive down to the Borne (10 km in total).

Haute Borne: Waypoint
Comment: Hameau de Chazalette (descente)
Approach: From the hamlet of Les Chambons, follow the little road - across the Borne - for about 1 km (you can also park the car here), where you then take a forest road on the left down to the river.

Haute Borne: Waypoint1
Comment: Départ du sentier de l\'approche (descente)
Approach: From the hamlet of Les Chambons, follow the little road - across the Borne - for about 1 km (you can also park the car here), where you then take a forest road on the left down to the river.

Haute Borne: Waypoint2
Comment: sentier de retour obligatoire (descente)

Haute Borne: Waypoint3
Comment: sentier de retour obligatoire (descente)

Haute Borne: Helipad
Comment: Zone de Pose Hélicoptère (stationnement interdit) (descente)

Siagne de la Pare Escragnolles: Canyon Start
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Approach: Continue along the steep slope, passing the mark "88". The slope finds its continuation in a path. Before(!) you finally reach a large boulder field and in front of the large information board go right down path tracks. Descend here and follow the cairns further down to the river.
Tour: The stream flows over countless sintered terraces with an average low gradient, but also offers a narrow section and many possible jumps. Sometimes it is worth looking behind the water curtain of sintered cascades. \nAlso attractive not only scenic!

Siagne de la Pare Escragnolles: Canyon End
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Return: In the past you had to move the cars about 25 km, see e.g. "Canyons Méditerranéens - Les plus beaux canyons de l'Ubaye á la mer" (Bernard Barbier/Bernard Ranc) 1993), p. 182; now you can go up to the left at the confluence with the other source river of the Siagne and back to the car. To do this, first walk about 100 m upstream on the orographic right bank of the other (Grande) Siagne. Here, cairns and orange markers indicate an indistinct ascent track (starting in a westerly direction!) northwards up the ridge between Siagne de la Pare and Siagne. Several passages are secured by ropes. After about 45 minutes, you reach a water pipe, follow it horizontally to the left, first come to the access path and on this back to the car (return 1.5 to 2 hours) - see: wikiloc

Siagne de la Pare Escragnolles: Parking Entry and Exit
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Access: From Cannes, take the N85 to Grasse and continue on the Route Napoléon to the village of Escragnolles (about 19 km from Grasse). Here, take a small road down to the left following the signs "Siagne de la Pare". The road continues on an unpaved track that climbs again a little further on. Before it then drops steeply, park the car on a larger flat area (steel cable, freight elevator to the spring on the opposite slope).
Return: In the past you had to move the cars about 25 km, see e.g. "Canyons Méditerranéens - Les plus beaux canyons de l'Ubaye á la mer" (Bernard Barbier/Bernard Ranc) 1993), p. 182; now you can go up to the left at the confluence with the other source river of the Siagne and back to the car. To do this, first walk about 100 m upstream on the orographic right bank of the other (Grande) Siagne. Here, cairns and orange markers indicate an indistinct ascent track (starting in a westerly direction!) northwards up the ridge between Siagne de la Pare and Siagne. Several passages are secured by ropes. After about 45 minutes, you reach a water pipe, follow it horizontally to the left, first come to the access path and on this back to the car (return 1.5 to 2 hours) - see: wikiloc