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Climbing at La Draye – Petite Dalles
It was a bit of a surprise to see fresh snow up on the tops! The overnight precipitation had also changed the river a bit! Once the sun had warmed the slabs, we had a nice afternoon trying to climb rock that was mostly devoid of hand holds and foot holds! Classic Ailefroide technique… Petite… Read more
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Le Pilier Gris, D (180m) – La Croix de Toulouse
To take advantage of the slight dip in the temperatures, we were up and out early to try a climb about the town of Briancon. I’d heard about the Pilier Gris for a while and had previously decided that it would be too hot/busy to climb at this time of year, but with a cooler… Read more
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Alpine Life
We’ve spent a few days of alpine living ‘at home’ around Pelvoux, doing various bits of online work, resting, swimming and even squeezed in a couple of valley climbs between the every changing weather of recent days. High clouds early on in the day signalled a change was coming… Clare has had a very busy… Read more
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Starting Pitches…
A rather disjointed day! We managed to climb quite a few pitches of rock, but didn’t top out on a single route! Sometimes that’s the way it goes… After an early start, we were clipping the first bolts at around 07:30am. We thought we’d be climbing in the shade, but as our climb was on… Read more
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Refuge des Bans (2083m)
Last summer, some huge floods and landslides caused all sorts of chaos in this alpine region and today we saw some of the devistation first hand on the walk up to the Refuge des Bans. For a start, the road to the car park was still closed to traffic. This could have put an end… Read more
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Mossy Multi-Pitch Climbing
We set out to climb a ‘new route’ in the valley today, only to find that it was a bit too new and still covered in moss and pine needles! Also, although the topo made it look pretty good, the climbing was mediocre and disjointed, so although it was a nice journey up the hillside,… Read more
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