60 French Hiking Terms 🥾

Author: Emilie

Follow Emilie, her friends and French immersion student David for a hike in the French Pyrénées mountains. Practice your French hiking vocabulary in the context of this French English bilingual story written in easy French and full of gorgeous pictures!

Bonjour à tous. My name is Emilie and I’m a French immersion teacher and host in the Pyrénées mountains region.

Please start by studying the vocabulary listed in this article: then read my free French English bilingual story about my winter hike in France, featuring hide and reveal English translation.

French Hiking Vocabulary

  1. Une randonnée (or rando for short) = a hike
  2. Une randonneur, une randonneuse  = hiker
  3. Une balade = leisure walk
  4. Une promenade = leisure  walk
  5. Randonner = to hike
  6. un anorak = ski jaket
  7. une combinaison de ski = ski suit
  8. des Moon Boots (f) ou des après-ski (m) = snow boots, Moon boots
  9. des chaussures de marche (f) = walking shoes
  10. des chaussures de randonnée (f) = hiking shoes
  11. être équipé de = equipped with, fitted with
  12. Suivre = to follow
  13. Conduire, Mener = to lead
  14. Un sac à dos = backpack
  15. Le balisage = trail marking
  16. Un sentier = path
  17. Une piste = track
  18. Une route forestière = road through the woods
  19. Un itinéraire = route
  20. Un panneau = sign [ftproduct_ad id=”81098″]
  21. Une boucle = loop
  22. une ascension = ascent,  climb
  23. Le dénivelé = elevation
  24. Le point de départ = starting point
  25. L’aller = the way in
  26. Aller-retour =  round trip
  27. Suivre = to follow
  28. Atteindre = to reach
  29. Rejoindre = to rejoin
  30. Emprunter un chemin = to follow a path, follow a trail
  31. Prendre un chemin = to take a path
  32. Une montée =  climb
  33. Raide = steep
  34. Une pente = slope
  35. Un pâturage = pasture
  36. Un versant = mountain side
  37. La montagne = the mountains
  38. Une crête = ridge
  39. Une vue dégagée = an unobstructed view
  40. Une cabane = wooden-house
  41. Un refuge = shelter
  42. un encas = snack
  43. un pique-nique =picnic
  44. S’hydrater = to get hydrated
  45. La crème solaire = sunscreen
  46. un troupeau = herd
  47. une bête, un animal = animal
  48. la neige = snow
  49. un rapace = raptor bird
  50. un oiseau de proie = bird of prey

You may also enjoy Pierre’s hikes in Midi-Quercy and Camille’s hikes in Provence !

Author: Emilie

Emilie

Bonjour, my name is Emilie, and I'm an experienced and certified French teacher. I live in the foot of the Pyrénées Mountains in the South West of France and will share articles about my beautiful region with you.

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