Ecrins Haute Route: Approaching the Selle Hut
A steep S facing descent to be timed carefully for spring snow
Severe Ski Touring
- Distance
- 2 km
- Ascent
- 34 m
- Descent
- 866 m
The Ecrins Haute Route: France's Wildest Ski Tour
A wild tour in France's most untamed and inaccessible mountain range.
Ski Touring Difficult, Severe
Also in Isère, France
Description
Make no mistake about it - this is a long, serious and "out-there" ski tour. To complete it you'll need skill, experience, good weather and a solid team to ski with. However (as with all difficult mountain endeavours) the rewards when the stars align are more than worth the effort you put in.
The Ecrins mountains are the domain of the true ski mountaineer and (unlike most of the French Alps) have been left wild, and free of sprawling ski resorts. The peaks are high and aesthetic and anyone who puts in the effort to wait for a weather window, plan and then execute this tour will be handsomely rewarded by a true mountains adventure.
Routes included
Ecrins Haute Route: Selle Hut to Chatelleret Hut
A mellow mountain journey through a high pass with a great descent
Difficult Ski Touring
- Distance
- 6.3 km
- Ascent
- 725 m
- Descent
- 1.1 km
Ecrins Haute Route: Chatelleret Hut to Adele Planchard Hut
A long climb to a high col with amazing views, then a traverse to a high hut- into the wilderness!
Severe Ski Touring
- Distance
- 5 km
- Ascent
- 1.3 km
- Descent
- 325 m
Ecrins Haute Route: Adele Planchard Hut to the l’Alpe de Villar d’Arène Hut
Ascent of la Grande Ruine before a huge descent
Severe Ski Touring
- Distance
- 10 km
- Ascent
- 674 m
- Descent
- 1.8 km
Ecrins Haute Route: Alpe de Villar d'Arene Hut to Ecrins Hut via Col Emile Pic 3483m
A crucial link up a complex glacier through a high col, with an optional peak
Severe Ski Touring
- Distance
- 7.5 km
- Ascent
- 1.5 km
- Descent
- 435 m
Ecrins Haute Route: Ecrins Hut to Dome de Neiges des Ecrins to Glacier Blanc Hut
A famous ski mountaineering day, to the ski summit of the Dome des Ecrins (4015m) before a descent to the Glacier Blanc Hut
Severe Ski Touring
- Distance
- 12 km
- Ascent
- 983 m
- Descent
- 1.6 km
Ecrins Haute Route: Glacier Blanc Hut to Col du Monêtier to Monêtier-les-Bains
A relatively easy skin with a steepening to the final col before a nearly 2000m descent to finish.
Difficult Ski Touring
- Distance
- 10 km
- Ascent
- 806 m
- Descent
- 1.9 km
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