Ground of adventure

Sector : Ailefroide and Pays des Ecrins.
Level :
Confirmé
Duration : 4 days
Meeting : Guides’s office in Ailefroide on Monday morning, 8 am.
Collective : 900 € per person (from 2 up to 4 participants)
Private : 1680 € global (until 4 participants)
This 4-day educational stay offers you the opportunity to learn in the practice of traditional climbing, the "trad climbing". Gently and gradually, this stay offers you to be able to familiarize yourself with the progression in climbing by protecting yourself by your own means: jammers, "friends", straps.

Programm

 Program to be defined with the Guide according to the level of the participants and their experience.

Equipment

 Mountain trousers
 Warm underwear
 warm fleece jacket
 waterproof and breathing jacket
 sunglasses, sunscreen for face and lips
 backpack, middle size (30 to 40 liters)
 You can have a second small 20-litre climbing bag to climb and leave your larger bag at the bottom of the tracks. It is not systematic to climb with the bag but it can happen. There are climbing bags with hardware carriers on the straps.
 gourde (minimum 1 liter), lunches and snacks, picnic
 Light walking shoes, or comfortable sneakers (if the descent of the track is done by foot, you will have to wear them with you)
 Descender, 2 screw carabiners, rope, lanyard for rappels.
 An additional pear screw carabiner.
 Possibly a magnesia bag.
 If you have jammers, "friends", you can bring them to familiarize yourself with their use.
 harness (1)
 helmet (1)
 climbing shoes (1) (1) Renting is possible

participants

 3 to 4 persons per mountain guide.
 This stay aims at evolving as an autonomous rope and at the head of the rope under the control of your guide.

Access

The guides’ office is in Vallouise La Casse, a shopping mall one kilometre before the centre of Vallouise from L’Argentière-la-Bessée, near the pharmacy. Road access by Grenoble-Col du Lautaret and Briançon, or by the south, Gap-Embrun and L’Argentière-la-Bessée.

Level

 This stay is for people who already have a knowledge of climbing and the mastery of basic safety techniques (rope, leader’s belay).
 Technically, you have to climb to the minimum level of 5c, second. The level of the activities can be higher, then groups of levels will be formed.

Price

Price per person.

The price includes:
 supervision by a high mountain guide.
 the loan of technical equipment common to the ropes (draws, ropes, straps, clampers, friends).

The price does not include:
 accommodation, meals
 personal expenses, drinks.
 Insurance.
 The transport from your home to the meeting place and from the place of separation.
 The possible rental of equipment.
 In general, anything not indicated in the section "The price includes".

Period

One activity every week from April 29 to September 23 (1st day of the stay).