Trois Siegneurs par Goutets

A walk from La Foulie up the long piste to Goutets. From there under a large avalanche field up to the Col de la Pourtanelle, where the wild daffodils and dog tooth violets were just starting to come out into flower.

Some huge room size blocks in the avalanche

Great views from the col

From the col a laborious climb up the ridge to reach Cap de Gragnots 2110m where the continuous snow started. the ridge has large cornices and the crack line was clearly visible some 10m from the tip.

The horizontal part of the ridge before Pic de Trois Seigneurs

The last part of the climb was steeper on harder snow and as only I had an ice axe, Sheri and Susie stopped just below whilst I quickly visited the summit.

The last part of climb

Summit shot

Choughs

On the return the wind and cloud cover increased and an unidentified bird speeding by in the strong tail wind, turned out to be an Egyptian Vulture!

 

 A 7 hour walk with 1200m of ascent over 16km.