The Mountains of Bourget
 
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The Tooth of the Cat

On western bank of the lake, the Tooth of the Cat (1390 m), single asperity of the chain of the Spine, owes its name with a legend.

It rules the life of the region, wrote Charles DULLIN, gives the hour, announces storms, a little earlier approaches, distances, living and mysterious. One calls it the Tooth of the Cat.
It has made born legends whose some have shared through centuries.
One of it puts in scene a bizarre cat « sin »  in the lake of Le Bourget . It's enlarge, to grow until to reach the size of a panther. The cat ground, invisible around the lake. Children, women and men disappear, spreading the terror in the region.
The cat instituted guardian the collar, it left to cross the mountain only to nineteen persons and devoured the twentieth.
Came to pass the king Arthur and its valiant knights, residents asked their assistance.
Arms to the hand, they take back the road, atop a rock they turn the cat. Without reflecting, they killed it. The cat rolled up to in the lake. It is, told - one, prisoner of waters, sometimes it puts in anger, its hair bristles and provokes to the green water surface these abrupt groans that make overturn boats.

 The Granier Mount

The Revard Mount

To 1550 meters. of altitude, The Revard Mount is an immense plate open on the solid mass of Les Bauges. For soon a century, senior of the French stations, it has been also the paradise of the walkers and the skiers. One assembles on bike, by car, with foot... but one can go down some by hang glider or parapente. It is the greatest field of ski touring of France: 150 km of rammed basic tracks, 60 km of tracks rackets and pedestrians, a track of huskies. As many paths marked out for the excursion or mountain bike, the summer.

The Cross of Nivolet

Since Space

[The Tooth of the Cat] - [The Granier Mount] - [The Revard Mount] - [The Cross of Nivolet] - [Since Space]