Autumn break and elective general meeting in Autrans (Isère), 10 to 12 October 2025
Enrico Alberini, Jean-Luc Matte, Christophe Badonnel and the IT managers contributed to this page presenting the trip.
The autumn 2025 event will take place from 10 to 12 October 2025 in the Isère department. The routes have been designed and approved by Alain Benoist and Philippe Imbert.
We will be staying in the "L'Escandille" holiday village.
Introduction to the region
Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors is a new commune, created by the merger of the villages of Autrans and Méaudre on 1 January 2016. It will have a population of around 3,000 in 2023.
Located in Isère, in the Auvergne Rhône-Alpes region, the commune is nestled in the heart of the Vercors Regional Nature Park and the Massif du Vercors Community of Communes.
Autrans-Méaudre en Vercors offers a multitude of sporting and family activities.
Created in 1970, the Vercors Regional Nature Park is located in the French Alps. Auvergne Rhône-Alpes RegionThis mid-mountain region extends over a vast massif of 227,621 ha between Drôme and Isère and includes 98 municipalities spread across several natural regions: the Northern Piedmont, the Quatre-Montagnes, the Coulmes, the Diois, the Vercors Drômois, the Royans, the Trièves, the Gervanne, the Raye and Monts du Matin and the Pays de Saillans.
The Vercors is home to a wide variety of ecosystemsconditions conducive to the development and maintenance ofbeautiful biodiversity: "high" mountain fauna (snow vole, mountain venturon...) and cliffs (tichodrome, ibex, vultures...) ; species with southern affinities (cicada, red partridge...) and of species". glacial relics " (mountain hare, black grouse, rock ptarmigan, European owl...).
The massif is home to an exceptionally wide range of animal species, many of which are protected and often only thinly distributed across Europe. 72 species of mammals of which 29 species of bats (among the 36 listed in France), the 6 wild ungulates (red deer, mouflon, chamois, wild boar, roe deer, ibex), weasels, squirrels, marmots, wolves, foxes, lynx... 140 species of breeding birds including the golden eagle, the great horned owl and the black grouse, emblem of the Park... and the 4 species of vulture. The Vercors is also home to 25 species of reptiles and amphibians.
The plant species are just as diverse. Alpine flora alongside lavender and dry orchid meadowswhich are found in large numbers throughout the massif. On the same slope in the Diois, you can find edelweiss, the symbol of the 'high' mountains, and thyme, typically Mediterranean. All in all, 1800 plant species including 85 protected species (Venus's slipper, bear's ear primrose, wild tulip...), 79 orchid species (including Spitzel's orchid or coral root), wild tulip, Haller's pulsatilla, doradilla elegans, lycopod, columbine, martagon lily...
The Vercors landscape is also the legacy of a very long human history that has shaped it over the centuries. The first human settlement in the area was made by agriculture. In the absence of any human intervention, the Vercors would be almost entirely wooded.
In fact, apart from the cliffs and some very steep slopes, humans have transformed the natural elements to create the landscape we see today. Shepherds and farmers have created a mosaic of fields and pastures, while lumberjacks and charcoal burners have modified the landscape. forest composition…
By opening up grazing areas in the dense forest cover and keeping them open, farmers continue to play a major role in defining the landscape of the massif.
Situated at the transition between the northern and southern Alps, the Vercors is subject to the triple climatic influence of altitude, oceanic rainfall and Mediterranean regimes.
These influences, visible in both precipitation and temperature, make the Vercors a unique pre-Alpine massif. contribute significantly to the richness of environments and species encountered in the region.
Dressed At the outpost of the French Alps, the Vercors boasts a wide variety of landscapes and landforms which makes it ideal for a wide range of activities, The Vercors can be explored on foot, by bike, on horseback, in ropes, on snowshoes or on skis, suspended from a sail...…
Through the ages, mankind and the Vercors massif have forged links that nurture the identity of a unique territoryThis is the setting for a heritage that is sometimes discreet but always present and surprising...
Along the way, you'll come across natural rock-shelter caves, ruins that bear witness to distant civilisations, and corbelled roads laid out in the 19th century.e monuments commemorating the last world war bear witness to a rich past, a force for the future.
Two history museums in Vassieux-en-Vercors are managed by the Vercors Park: the Resistance memorial is a central stage in a route that takes in the whole of the Massif, the places where Resistance actions took place during the Second World War and the places where the Resistance is still active today. the Prehistory Museumset up on the site of a flint-cutting workshop abandoned 4,500 years ago by craftsmen-tailors, showcases some thirty years of archaeological research.
There are many other sites where you can explore different facets of history: the Departmental Museum of the Resistance at Vassieux-en-Vercorsthe archaeological and historical museum of the Diois region et du Diois in Die, the water museum in Pont-en-Royans...
Villard-de-Lans was France's third-largest ski resort to be created in 1906; the professionals of the Grandes Traversées du Vercors are among the pioneers of roaming in 1956, a world record is set by a team of cavers which is over 1000 metres deep (-1122m) at the Berger chasm; since the early 2000slocal players are focusing on issues relating to food quality the history of the village power plants in the Vercors will quickly identify them as pilot sites for the development of a new model of renewable energy production at national level Several companies offer cutting-edge products or services such as Paleotime; and within civil society, residents are constantly inventing for education, pooling, heritage enhancement, the common good...
Circuits
ccTours Autrans 2025
Hosting
Close to the hilltop village of Autrans, at an altitude of 1080 metres, the L'Escandille holiday village is located in the heart of the Vercors Regional Nature Park. Surrounded by a 12-hectare wooded park, this village is the ideal place to recharge your batteries, with a host of relaxation facilities and a wide range of organised activities during your stay.
Heated indoor swimming pool, paddling pool, sauna, steam room, whirlpool bath and fitness room are all available to help you make the most of your stay.
Motorhomes will be allowed to park in the holiday village at a cost of €7 per day.
2025 Annual General Meeting
The Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday 11 October 2025 from 2.30pm.
It will end with the traditional vin d'honneur.
Salle Molière L'Escandille 931 route de la Sure 38880 Autrans-Méaudre
Note from the Board of Directors
If you are organising your accommodation elsewhere than at the stay centre, don't forget to register as a "Simple Participant":
- In order to correctly size joint events (information sessions, welcome and closing drinks).
- To provide the holiday booklet.
- To ensure that the costs of preparation and organisation are shared.
Registrations
Télécharger le bulletin / download the booking form / scarica il modulo
The deadline for receipt of entries is 10/08/2025.
Other activities or visits
Some ideas for visits:
Article in the Dauphiné Libéré
Report by François Rieu
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