Ski Touring in the Vanoise provides an introduction to ski touring in the French département of Savoie and covers the Vanoise National Park and surrounding area. The guide covers all the major areas of the region and includes tours of all levels of difficulty and of all styles, from one-day trips to multi-day, hut-to-hut journeys. The tours that have been chosen reflect the variety of landscape and skiing that makes ski touring in Savoie so special.
The guide is divided into 12 chapters, which describe 63 days of skiing, with over 100 additional alternatives and variations. Although far more than an off-piste skiing guide, many of the tours start from resorts and can be combined with a resort-based ski holiday.
Contents:
1: The Lauzière
Day 1: The Pointe de Combe Bronsin
Day 2: Traverse of Mont Bellacha
Day 3: The Grand Arc
Day 4: Traverse of the Pointe des Marmottes Noires
Day 5: The Pic du Rognolet
Day 6: The Grand Pic de la Lauzière
2: The Belledonne
Day 1: La Bourgeat Noire to the Refuge de l’Oule
Day 2: Traverse of the Col de Comberousse and the Col de la Valloire
Day 3: Traverse of the Col de l’Eglise and the Col de Morétan
Day 4: Tour of the Pic Nord du Merlet
Day 5: Tour of the Grand Morétan
3: The Beaufortain
Day 1: Granier to the Refuge de la Coire
Day 2: Tour of the Crêt du Rey
Day 3: Traverse of the Col du Mont Coin and the Col du Bresson
Day 4: Traverse of the Col du Grand Fond and the Col de la Nova
Day 5: Traverse of the Mont Rosset
4: Valloire
Day 1: Traverse of the Pointe des Raticières
Day 2: The Aiguille de l’Epaisseur
Day 3: The Col des Aiguilles d’Arves
Day 4: Traverse of the Crête d’Argentière
5: The Tour of the Mont Thabor
Day 1: Traverse of the Col de Fontaine Froide
Day 2: Traverse of the Col de l’Etroit du Vallon and the Crête de Mome
Day 3: The Pic du Lac Blanc
Day 4: Traverse of the Rocher de la Grande Tempête
Day 5: The Roche Château
Day 6: Traverse of the Mont Thabor
6: The North Vanoise
Day 1: Le Bois to the Refuge de Plaisance
Day 2: The Dôme des Pichères
Day 3: Traverse of the Pointe de Vallaisonnay
Day 4: The Col de la Grande Casse
Day 5: The Col du Tougne
7: The Glaciers de la Vanoise
Day 1: Les Prioux to the Refuge de la Valette
Day 2: Traverse of the Dôme de Chasseforêt
Day 3: Traverse of the Col du Moine
Day 4: Traverse of the Pointe de l’Observatoire
Day 5: The Dôme de Polset
8: Val d’Isère - Tour A
Day 1: Val d’Isère to the Refuge de Prariond
Day 2: The Pointe de la Galise
Day 3: The Grande Aiguille Rousse
Tour B
Day 1: Val d’Isère to the Refuge du Fond des Fours
Day 2: Traverse of the Pointe de Méan Martin
Day 3: Traverse of the Pointe de la Sana
9: The Ambin Valley
Day 1: The Le Suffet to the Refuge d’Ambin
Day 2: The Mont d’Ambin
Day 3: The Pointe Sommeiller
Day 4: The Pointe Ferrand
Day 5: Traverse of the Petit Vallon
10: Avérole
Day 1: Bessans to the Refuge d’Avérole
Day 2: The Col de la Bessanèse
Day 3: The Ouille d’Arbéron
Day 4: Traverse of the Albaron
11: Carro/Evettes
Day 1: Ecot to the Refuge du Carro
Day 2: The Levanna Occidentale
Day 3: The Grande Aiguille Rousse
Day 4: The Carro–Evettes Traverse
Day 5: The Petite Ciamarella
Day 6: The Pointe Francesetti
12: Ski Mountaineering
Aiguille des Glaciers
Aiguille de la Grande Sassière
Mont Pourri
Grande Casse
Well illustrated with good maps and lots of colour photos.
By Paul Henderson.
Plastic cover, 17.5cm x 12cm, 184 pages.
Published 2002.
ISBN: 1-85284-375-6.