This guide offers readers all the inspiration they need for a multi-activity holiday in the Haute Maurienne (also known as the Vanoise and Dauphiné), in the French Alps. Contents cover day walks, mountaineering routes, via ferratas, rock climbs, mountain biking, road cycling and long-distance treks, and the guide seems ideal for the adventurous family on holiday.
Walking/biking routes range from short walks and cycle rides for the whole family to sustained or challenging mountain routes up to PD to reach the highest summits. Six crags are described with photo diagrams (the routes are nearly all in the sub 6a category, so ideal for youngsters), along with nine via ferratas.
1 Day Walks
Route 1 Lac de l’Arcelle
Route 2 La Pierre aux Pieds
Route 3 Lac Blanc and Plan des Eaux
Route 4 Vallon de la Rocheure
Route 5 Pointe de Lanserlia
Route 6 Hannibal’s Crossing (Col Clapier)
Route 7 Mont Froid
Route 8 Pointe de Bellecombe
Route 9 High Valley Walk
Route 10 Pointe de l’Observatoire
2 Mountaineering Routes
Route 11 Pointe Droset
Route 12 Crête de la Turra and Pointe du Grand Vallon
Route 13 Pointe des Fours
Route 14 3000ers Circuit
Route 15 Lessières Traverse
Route 16 Le Petit Vallon
Route 17 Roche d’Etache
Route 18 Traverse of Pointe de Cugne
Route 19 North Ridge of Cime du Laro
Route 20 Signal du Petit Mont Cenis
Route 21 Arête de Léché
Route 22 La Dent Parrachée
3 Via Ferratas
Route 23 Le Pichet, Lanslevillard
Route 24 The Pinnacles, Aussois
Route 25 Guy Favre, Balme Noir
Route 26 Traversée des Anges
Route 27 Montée au Ciel
Route 28 Les Rois Mages
Route 29 Descente aux Enfers
Route 30 Remontée du Purgatoire
Route 31 Via Cordatta, Col de la Madeleine (Via Ferrata/Rock Climbing)
4 Rock Climbing
Route 32 Rocher des Amoureux
4 Rock Climbing
Route 32 Rocher des Amoureux
Route 33 Sollières
Route 34 Rocher de Termignon
Route 35 Blocs de la Madeleine
Route 36 Dalles du Mollard
Route 37 Drailles Blanches
5 Mountain Biking
Route 38 Termignon and Sollières Circuit
Route 39 La Girarde
Route 40 Champions’ Loop
Route 41 Chemin du Petit Bonheur
Route 42 The Sardières Monolith
Route 43 Mont Cenis Circuit
6 Road Rides
Route 44 Col du Mont Cenis
Route 45 Aussois Loop
Route 46 Col de l’Iseran
Route 47 Col du Galibier
7 Walking Tours
Route 48 Tour of the Vanoise Glaciers
Route 49 Tour of Méan Martin
Route 50 Tour of Pointe de l’Echelle
Lots of excellent colour illustrations.
By Andy Hodges.
Plastic cover, 17.5cm x 12cm, 108 pages.
Published 2011.
ISBN: 978-1-85284-621-3.