• les premières longueurs
  • four solaire au refuge des Bans
  • coste counier
  • l’aiglière à l’automne
  • vallon des bans, au fond le Jocelme et le Bonvoisin
  • vue depuis le refuge des Bans
summer >  Alpinism

Traverse of the Dents de Coste Counier 3025 m

Sector : Secteur des Bans
Level :
Confirmé
Duration : 2 days
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Meeting : 6 pm at the Bans Refuge (2083 m)
Collective : 370 € per person (from 2 up to 2 participants)
Private : 650 € global (until 2 participants)
The Crossing of the Dents de Coste Counier is one of the greatest classics of rock climbing in altitude in the Pays des Écrins. Whether it is made a real objective, or whether this race is a preparation for more ambitious adventures, you will not be disappointed by the variety of atmospheres and the long ride that this ascent offers.

Programm

– On the first day, you will find your guide at Les Bans refuge, which you will have reached in one and a half hours of walking on the path from Entre les Aygues, above Vallouise.
– The second day, after an early morning departure by the light of the headlamp, you will quickly reach the first rocks and then the attack chimney, never difficult but shaded in the morning. It leads to the first gap where the sun finds you again for the ride of ridges to the top, with a reminder during the ascent. Return by the normal route.

Equipment

– Mountain trousers
– Warm underwear
– warm fleece jacket
– waterproof and breathing jacket
– 2 pairs of gloves, bonnet
– warm socks
– sunglasses, sunscreen for face and lips
– backpack, middle size (30 to 40 liters)
– gourde (minimum 1 liter), lunches and snacks, picnic
– headlamps with batteries
– bed sheet. No need for sleeping bags (there are blankets at the refuge)
– alpinism shoes with stiff soles that can be fitted with crampons (check with your crampons before you hike to the refuge) (1)
– Descender with a safety carabiner. Rope
– Additional safety carabiner
– classic ice axe, middle size, not cumbersome (1)
– crampons that fit your shoes (1)
– harness (1)
– helmet (1)
– hiking sticks (1) (1) Renting is possible No ice axe or crampons necessary at the end of the season (please contact us)

participants

– 2 participants per guide with the collective formula
– 1 to 2 participants per guide with the private formula

Access

Le Refuge des Bans is accessible by foot from Entre les Aygues where you can leave your vehicle (parking). About 700 m of ascending elevation on the way up. Access to Entre les Aygues by going up the valley from L’Argentière la Bessée in the Hautes Alpes via Vallouise. Enter Vallouise and follow the direction of Villar, then Entre les Aygues. Trainstation at L’Argentière la Bessée ("L’Argentière les Écrins").

Level

Climbing is never very difficult, but the race is long and will require good climbing skills so that you do not get tired in the series of lengths and easy sections where the progression is done simultaneously. As soon as the snow disappears in the middle of the season, this race no longer requires the use of ice axes or crampons. Level "AD" = quite difficult.

Price

This price includes the prestation of a high-mountain guide of the Bureau des Guides et Accompagnateurs des Écrins. It does not include the eventual rental of equipment, neither the night at the refuge or your meals/snacks.

Period

Tour scheduled every summer day between June and September. On request outside these dates. The refuge of Les Bans is guarded in mid-September depending on the years. After this date we will have to consider making our own meal on site, with a stove and having taken the food to the refuge.