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Engraved hikes and trails

Your trail, engraved in the mountain

The Tour du Mont Blanc, the Corsica traverse, the Haute Route… The great routes are ready to engrave: the real relief is carved in a block of solid lime wood and the route is laser-burned on top, pass after pass.

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A4 frame, relief up to 47 mm Route laser-engraved Made in the French Alps
Craftsmanship

From GPX file to burned wood

The Tour du Mont Blanc engraved on its relief map, front view in the A4 frame

1. Framing

The route is placed on the board with a margin all around; if the route is longer than it is wide, the board is rotated to give it all the room.

Close-up of the Tour du Mont Blanc route burned into a valley carved in lime wood

2. The relief, then the laser

The Carvera mills the relief, then its laser follows the path over the milled wood, hugging every slope: a 0.6 mm burned line from the valley floors up to the passes.

The Tour du Mont Blanc in relief in the light-wood A4 frame, seen from an angle

3. The frame

The block passes through a black mat and rises more than 3 cm out of the A4 frame; the route's name, distance and elevation gain are written in white below.

Questions

Before you choose

Can I change a route's map?

Yes, on request: the margin around the route, the size, the frame and the text on the mount. Just say so in your request.

Is the route accurate?

For hikes, it follows the waymarked routes as mapped in OpenStreetMap. For trails, it is rebuilt from the official checkpoints and may differ slightly from a given edition's course; you can send us the GPX file of your race instead.

How big is a map?

A 270 × 180 × 55 mm block of lime wood with up to 47 mm of relief. Framed: A4 size, 31.8 × 23.1 cm; the relief stands about 3 cm proud of the frame.

Why aren't some maps oriented north-up?

When a route is much longer than it is wide (the Haute Route, the Corsica traverse, the Alta Via 1…), the board is rotated so the route fills the whole wood instead of a narrow strip in the middle. On request, we keep north at the top.

Visuals: 3D renders made from each map's machining and engraving programs.

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