We take advantage of long evenings of June to go for a walk to the Gralet. It is always the same pleasure; an effective ascent and a magnificent view on the Alps! 5 of our youngest Teens in the EA really had fun! Picnic in front of the refuge, fire and games before coming down again with headlamps in the woods.

Movie coming up soon...

EA CAF St-Julien - Via Ferrata on the heights of Fort L'Ecluse

The long evenings of June are convenient to the excursions, the weather is nice and it is the opportunity to make a via ferrata after the classes.
For the beginners, it is a first confrontation with verticality, for the others a beautiful stroll between both forts.
After some rather vertical sections , we find ourselves on a big ledge. The opportunity to take some pictures before ending with the final small climb and the monkey bridge.!

Once our via ferrata finished, direction the big superior fort with a view of the Bassin Lémanique.
We share a picnic before descending in the woods with headlamps.
A pleasant evening with enjoyment and cheerfulness, as usual!

13 of October 2012 -Alpine Mountaineering Gathering for Teenagers organized by the CD74

The CD74 organizes a gathering of all the mountain activities for the Teenagers
This gathering will take place in the Col de la Colombière on October 13th, 2012 from 8:30 am till 6 pm.
The participation in this gathering is free and the inscriptions are made by the participating clubs in the operation (ask your club or the one nearest to you!)
It will be an opportunity to meet the various  involved personalities in the Teenagers activities of the department, to practise some climbing, multi-pitch climbing, via ferrata, MTB, and hiking!
Share this event with your friends!!!!

Rock and Bivouac WE in the Aiguilles Rouges

We take advantage of the peace preceding the summer season to make a beautiful excursion in the Aiguilles Rouges. The cable railway doesn't work yet and the Aiguilles aren't very frequented. We leave the parking lot of the Brévent heavily charged with all we need to bivouac, to climb, to eat... it certainly fills our bags.






A beautiful ascent under the sun and in the woods leads us over Planpraz where we decide to install our bivouac.
After a good picnic, we begin the approach of the climbing route Crakoucass approach, the ski slopes are still well covered with snow and allow us to ascend almost directly.

The climb is fun, the snowy descent also!

 

Arrived at the bivouac, the water and meal operation begins. The view is awesome, but, on the other side, the Aiguilles of Chamonix get cloudy..
We look at the weather report: no rain before 14 o'clock... We settle down under the balconies of a chalet for the night! 15 minutes later, it is as if a waterfall were trying to test the waterproofness of the bivouac bags.


On Sunday morning, its still raining...
At 8 am finally, we can see the sun! We dry our equipment and have breakfast. The weather report still seems as uncertain and we take advantage of the good weather period to come back down

The timing is perfect, the rain starts again when we arrive at the parking lot.

New in the club: Creation of a Teen Climbing Course (EE)

New Teen climbing courses at the CAF of St-Julien: After many months of work, we are happy to tell you of a Teen climbing course. Click the link above for more info...

EA CAF St-Julien en G- Piolets Jeunes movie

EA CAF St-Julien en G - Climbing and MTB holiday

After a couple displays of strength, our 7 MTBs and our climbing gears are loaded in the mini-van lended to us by the city of St-Julien and a car. There is only enough space left for the teens! And we're off for 4 days in the Dentelles de Montmirail.

After a couple hours drive, we have finally arrived at our  camping spot. Everybody helps to empty the van and build the tents, eager to get a taste of the exceptional limestone slabs in the area!

We took advantage of the afternoon sun to climb! For most of us, it's the first time of the season that we climb! And we all enjoyed it!

Our day started under heavy rain... so we took out the bikes to explore a bit and to check our knowledge in orientation (in a small forest, with neither sun nor visibility, its easy to miss an intersection...), and we managed it pretty well!

We arrive at the summit with a sunny welcome, and an amazing view on the region.

We come back to our camping and we take an all too welcome shower & lunch before taking off again, this time to climb in the waterfall sector (with of course, artificial and friend placement exercises and multi-pitch belay and rappels).








The next day, the sunniest one of our journey, was dedicated entirely to multi-pitch climbing, where we could be leaders if we felt like it.

Very nice discovery of the central chain of the Dentelles, and Long live cakes!

The last day, the weather is subject to change and we need to get back home, so we decide to do a MTB tour to work a bit on our orientation again. The terrain permits us to make things faster (way faster than the hours spent in traffic jams!...












The teens came back very tired but motivated to come again (video coming out soon)