The craggy summit of Tete de Gaulent (2867m) can easily be seen from the front of our house and I have been keen to make my way up it for some time now. I managed to tempt David Monteith, an Alpine Club member, who was staying with us to come along. I wasn’t exactly sure [...]
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This course was only a week long and was pretty easy going compared to the one at the beginning of the summer. It was mainly to recap on what we had learnt over the summer and to kind of share the information around the rest of the group. It was amazing to see how different [...]
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Lac du Distroit is up at 2519m altitude at the southern tip of the Ecrins National Park. This walk starts from the trailhead in the Rabioux valley above Chateauroux les Alpes. The path climbs up from the valley floor on the south facing slopes under the steep slopes of the Chabreyret ridgeline. There is a [...]
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This was the first real course specifically aimed at the mountain leadership award. It seems strange that we have to wait 9 months from the entrance exam back in September to do this course. Obviously they leave some time to do the Tronc Commun but even so there seems to have been a lot of [...]
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This is a great walk starting in the splendour of the hidden valley of the Escreins. It is a deep and green valley, lined on either side by dramatic and colourful limestone cliffs and crested by tormented and jagged peaks. It is this wild remoteness coupled with the lack of any permanent inhabitants in this [...]
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It was a pretty grim and overcast Sunday for a change. Emma, Ollie and I went for a small walk from the car park at the end of the hidden Val d’Escreins up past the Cabane des Chalances to where the path crosses the river up at La Gourre.
Filed under: Photo on May 13th, 2007 | No Comments »