Aaaah the famous "retour d'Est"! you do not know yet? We here are fan!

Grab your fats, your board of pow and come see to believe.

During the snow fall and just after this is alaska and Japan combined...

Spaces and forests of larch, can ride all-weather ;-)

mont pelvoux, another almost 4000 m, is one of the main ecrins range Summit 

When we are going down by foot, during summer, we are dreaming to have skis on feet... well it is possible!

It is truly "ski mountaineering". Not very difficult to achieve this ascension, but we are often roped and use ice axe and crampons.

2400 m of pure happiness for the descent! the route is logical and varied: ice cap, parts in the middle of the crevasses, steep corridor.

Unforgettable!

between 2 and 6 days of ski touring to discover the magical slopes and shelters perched around the legendary top of the meije.

a sector conducive to technical ski tours in Ecrins massif, to make real great skiing!

dévoluy, in the southern part of the Ecrins massif, offers a multitude of beautiful ski courses

The route presented here, by Olympic chourums is surprising, unusual.

Bivouac on the path for a departure with headlamp, because 1600 m vertical drop await us for the summit

2 possibilities for the descent: td, 5.2 If you ski the caves, or pouring is wonderful to finish the loop.

double blow for this release of dream: NW face La Blanche + pelas verney couloir

itinerary:

• departure from Pelvoux - La Blanche resort, 1 chairlift + 1 bottomlift
• skinning to reach La Blanche Summit 2953m (+ 730 m)
• NW couloir (500 m, 5.2, 50 ° max) )
• ski touring up to the breach victor Chaud 3142 m (+ 650 m)
• pelas-verney (850 m, 5.3, 55 ° max)
• slide back to the resort

A gully is an icefall, but in an environment more "high mountain". Dare adventure!

the difficulties are less, alternating lengths of ice, snow "couic" and mixed slopes more or less steep.

Need us 1 hour walk of approach to reach the departure of the chutes of 300 m.

• la canaille, td -
• Parfum d'oisans, TD
• Mongolito, TD+
• Grassi, TD
• Invité du diable, TD+
• Marguerite effleurée, ED-
• la Compagnie des glaces, TD

and many others...

ski - snowboard - telemark

La meije cable car takes us up to 3600 m altitude, in the world of the off piste in all its forms. Here, no marked track, nothing of the vast white expanse of glaciers, forest and corridors. and especially descents up to 2400 m height difference... what heat thighs.

There is something for everyone:

• leisure ski and contemplative (valleys of the meije and chancel)
• skiing in the forest in bad weather of the corridors (Lake, the Trifid,...)
• great routes (chirouze, orciere, the arch, the freaux,...)
• steep slope (the pan of the curtain)
• routes accessible mountain in ski touring (enfetchores,...)

the grave will never disappoint you!

transceiver, shovel and probe, harness, ice axe, crampons can be lended if necessary 

"Serre Che" for the respondents. It is one of the largest ski area in europe.

We can chain the off-piste variety ending every time in the larch forest, with always the slope and elevation. Half an hour of market, skis on the bag and we here at the top of the cucumelle. Yet of the beautiful traces leave in virgin snow during the 1300 m downhill to the Valley.

Great ski!

Serre Che' for the respondents.

It is one of the largest ski area in europe.

We can chain the off-piste variety, ending every time in the larch forest, with always the slope and elevation. half an hour walking, skis on the bag and we are at the top of la Cucumelle.  More beautiful tracks to let in virgin snow during the 1300 m downhill to the valley

Freerando style, from the top of the lifts we can easily reach  the high mountain area. Direction the dome de Monetier, 1000 m ascent for more than 2000 m descent. to the choice, large cool slopes, corridors, or the huge Riou Comb down to Pre de Mme Carle. 

Great skiing!

It is the Valley of the lighthouse in the region, a must for ice climbing. There are more than 150 lines, initiation to the highest level, ice, dry or mixed, spread across many sectors. one of the most famous, la Tete de gramusat, with routes of up to 550 m high.

There are therefore for everyone. a few lines to work up an appetite: the violins, the arc, blow job, there, beyond the shadows, paulo madness, direct gramusat, impatience,...

• 3 lifts
• 1 cheap skipass
• not dear person in the resort
• almost 1000 m vertical drop
• fast rotations...
• = 1 dream spot!

possibility to stay 1 day / 1 station, a mix with risoul, vars, abriès, st veran, puy saint vincent, pelvoux, La Grave,...

Freerando version is the off-piste from barely further Virgin snow, in a little bit of ski touring. the ultimate!

• 3 lifts
• 1 cheap pass
• nobody in the resort
• almost 1000 m vertical drop of fast rotations
• ...

= 1 dream spot!

opportunity to stay 1 day / 1 station, a mix with vars, risoul, abriès, st veran, puy saint vincent, pelvoux, La Grave...

An area of impressive off-piste, yet little known that worth a visit.

A lot of accessible runs by gravity: the combales, the Telegraph, the combe of the Italians, the monkey, the devalle risoul, chabriere orbit, etc.

Other routes require walking a bit, but the result is equal to the efforts. Snow Virgin, exceptional, long descent: the eyssina, the peak without name,...

A nice resort to also learn the practice of off-piste skiing and coming with your family.

An area of impressive off-piste, yet little known that worth a visit.

A lot of accessible runs by gravity: the combales, the Telegraph, the combe of the Italians, the monkey, the devalle risoul, chabriere orbit, etc.

Other routes require walking a bit, but the result is equal to the efforts. Snow Virgin, exceptional, long descent: the eyssina, the peak without name,...

A nice resort to also learn the practice of off-piste skiing and coming with your family.

An other good plan of the hautes-alpes!

North, wild, corridors of the rouya and la blanche are available quickly. They allow vertiginous descents, after only between 500 and 700 m climb in ski touring beyond the ski lifts from the small station in pelvoux.

Possibility for the most motivated to give the skins at the end of the corridors to then access the mythical "pelas-verney" nearby hallway... an atmosphere in a setting "high mountain".

a nugget of hautes-alpes!

small station and long descents

ambience guaranteed for off-piste skiing in a setting "high mountain".

A golden nugget of hautes-alpes!

North, wild, corridors of la rouya and la blanche are available quickly. They allow vertiginous descents after only 500 to 700 m climb in ski touring beyond the ski lifts from the small station in pelvoux. A short reminder to get a foothold in the slope, at 50 ° still!

Possibility for the most motivated to give the skins at the end of the corridors to then access the mythical "pelas-vernet" nearby hallway...

An atmosphere in a setting "high mountain".

Small family resort of the queyras, molines / st veran also allows access to beautiful hikes at the start of the ski lifts, thanks to a "hiker" skipass. Little climb and large runs... (+ 700 m /-1700 m) a nice way to ski the big day powder, or to taste in ski mountaineering.

Choice, since the last lift, North corridor or South slopes of chateau renard, then we're back skins for a quick climb to the peak trversier. Still fine runs by more or less straight lines.

"freerando" as you'll like it!

Abriès!

a jewel of skiing off piste in the hautes-alpes, heavy snowfall guaranteed at the famous "retour d'Est". This small station also allows with a hiker package to win 1000 m in altitude, before switching ski touring. the choice of 200 m, 500 m, 700 m of more or less technical climb to endless raids. for example: the amunt mayt, pelvas, the epiole,... a good way to learn ski touring or for those who prefer the descent to the long climbs.

This is what is called the "freerando" (ski freeride-ski touring)

Abriès!

a jewel of skiing off piste in the hautes-alpes, heavy snowfall guaranteed at the famous "retour d'Est". This small station also allows with a hiker package to win 1000 m in altitude, before switching ski touring. the choice of 200 m, 500 m, 700 m of more or less technical climb to endless raids. for example: the amunt mayt, pelvas, the epiole,... a good way to learn ski touring or for those who prefer the descent to the long climbs.

This is what is called the "freerando" (ski freeride-ski touring)

To discover absolutely!

Font Sancte Peak is the highest summit of queyras range to almost 3,400 m altitude.

Its northern side is accessible to day thanks for the small ski resort of ceillac. This vast circus Unveils, who take the trouble to prosecute sealskins beyond the ski lifts, a good number of corridors very uncrowded and long in good conditions. It is possible according to the shape and the chosen routes to chain several corridors.

attention: when you get a taste, we go back several times!

you are a good skier?

looking for wild routes?

you regularly practice steep skiing?

you master the techniques of mountaineering?

so come and discover this sector of the Ecrins massif! the peaks surrounding the black glacier offer some exceptional, well ski and within easy reach corridors in ski touring day. the proposed slopes turn all around 50 ° (or +!)

by examples:

• couloir du Coup de Sabre
• couloir Nord du Glacier Noir
• couloir des Avalanches
• couloir du col Est du Pelvoux
• couloir Dérobé
• couloir Dewèze
• ...

steep ski is an extreme practice that cannot be improvised, during the descent the fall is often prohibited! the guide is here to help you, but cannot provide all the passages.

ski touring from warm inns to abriès, ristolas, saint veran, molines.

ski tour for a few days, in alternating nights in shelters and passages in the valleys.

freerando, use lifts to make fast altitude before putting the skins of seals.

all levels possible: introduction to the large gradients, big easy slopes to steep couloirs. the natural park regional of the queyras is a Mecca of ski touring, of "freerando", of splitboard and off-piste. it like this wild corner of the Alps, created for riding so the possibilities are enormous! so there is little chance to meet the world during our hikes there.

Thanks to a phenomenon of "retour d'Est", the range profit most of the time of a great snow.