Mountaineering – Les Rouies (3589m) 2 days

€200.00 per person

A physically tough but technically easy summit with glacier crossing. Graded ‘Facile’.  Perfect for a first mountaineering experience in the Ecrins massif. Includes night in a refuge.

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Price Includes: 

  • 1 night half board (evening meal and breakfast) in the Pigeonnier refuge
  • Guide fee for UIAGM high mountain guide for Les Rouies
  • All technical mountaineering equipment

Please note drinks, snacks, picnics or lunches at the refuge are not included.

Activity Description:

A fabulous mountaineering experience with large glacier crossing and interesting scramble to the summit. This is a little known summit in the Ecrins National Park and is a perfect mountaineering experience off the beaten track with spectacular views.  It is a long climb and physically challenging but no specific mountaineering experience is required to successfully summit.

Meeting Place:

You will meet your guide at the Pigeonnier Refuge on the evening before your summit but need to arrange to collect your mountaineering equipment (harness, helmet, ice axises and crampons) from your guide before you walk in unless you are bringing your own.

The date you book is the day you will walk into the refuge and you can walk in at any time as it is self guided. You just need to make sure are at the refuge before 6pm. Your guide will meet you there. You should be back at the refuge for lunch time the following day and can then walk back down to the car park.

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Rules:

No previous experience of mountaineering is required but an understanding of basis rope safety is an advantage.
What to Wear:

You will need several layers including: light clothes for the walk in, full set of thermals, fleece mid layer, warm fleece or down layer, waterproofs, fleece gloves (ideally with some grip), buff (for under helmet or neck), warm hat for refuge, mountaineering boots that can take a step in crampon, head torch, 45 litre rucksack to carry spare layers and mountaineering equipment.
What to Bring:

Snacks, a good sized water bottle 1.5 litres minimum, walking poles, basic wash kit for refuge
Equipment Provided:

We will provide you with ice axe, crampons, harness and helmet and the guide will bring all the necessary ropes and safety equipment. You will need to arrange to meet the guide before you walk in to the refuge to collect your mountaineering equipment.

Detailed Itinerary

The walk in to the refuge is well signposted from the Gioberney car park and takes about 2 hours.

Once you arrive at the refuge, the guardian will show you your room and the guide will come and meet you in the evening and show you the route and go through your equipment and rucksacks for the summit. Then it is dinner and an early night ready for your Alpine start.

This mountaineering trip starts with an early Alpine start at 4 or 5 am in the morning from the Pigeonnier refuge.

The start of Les Rouies is a rocky path, which you will do in the dark with your headtorch for light. This takes you up to the snow field and glacier where you will put on your crampons, rope up if necessary and get out your your ice axe. You will walk with 1 ice axe and 1 walking pole for this summit.

The glacier is large and spectacular and you will be rewarded with spectacular views across the Ecrins massif. The guide will give you tips on cramponing and walking over a glacier. The last section is a scramble / easy climb to get to the summit and then you have a fun descent all the way back down to the refuge. This is a lot easier physically than the walk up!

 

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