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Ascent to Le Roignais-below couloir on 2006-08-29

Climber: Rob Woodall

Date:

Tuesday, August 29, 2006

Ascent Type:

Unsuccessful - Turned Back

Point Reached:

Le Roignais - below couloir

Location:

France

Elevation:

2200 m / 7218 ft

Remaining Elevation:

794 m / 2608 ft (70% left to go)

Ascent Trip Report

Le Roignais, 2995m, P1028

Map: 1:25k: 3532OT

Stats: 350mH, 5km

Time: 29 Aug 06

Start: from southeast, Le Céré, 1852m, park by farm entrance

Route: hike the mapped road NW (becomes track), then ascend steep combe, grassy at first, stony higher up. The intention was to follow the combe until NE of the summit, then climb steep slopes from there to a col just NW of the summit, following the only info I’d found from the web: http://alpinisme.camptocamp.com/guide.html?reason=sdetail&ids=3828
However the weather turned wet, the cloud was low and there is no mapped path, and it didn’t look like the kind of route to do in those conditions, so I turned back at about 2200m.

Difficulties: finding the start point isn’t easy: network of narrow roads. Approach isn’t on map 3532OT so I was using 1:100k map. The route itself was graded F (31 Oct 2004) under snow: grade without snow unknown but likely to involve at least some scrambling, probably not very hard. Not in any of my guide books.

Summary Total Data

Elevation Gain:

349 m / 1142 ft

Route Conditions:

Maintained Trail, Unmaintained Trail, Scramble

Weather:

Raining, Cool, Breezy, Low Clouds

Ascent Statistics

Elevation Gain:

349 m / 1142 ft

Distance:

2.5 km / 1.6 mi

Route:

via northeast couloir

Trailhead:

from southeast, Le Céré, 1852m 1851 m / 6076 ft

Time Up:

2 Hours 0 Minutes

Descent Statistics

Time Down:

0 Hours 40 Minutes

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