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Climbing Broccoli 9-Jan-2018 At 5:46:06 PM kieranl

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On 9-Jan-2018 Wendy wrote:
>Secret number one to Cham. Don't go to do the Rebuffet or cosmiques arete.
>There'll always be queues. Plus the teleferique up there is the most expensive
>in the whole valley. And don't stay in the cosmiques refuge, it's private
>and costs ++++.
>
>And surely I don't need say it, but don't climb Mt Blanc.
>
>Cheap, less crowded options - camp on the Plan. Lovely spot and you could
>even walk up there if you were that stingy. Do awesome routes on the Blatiere
>or the Peigne. only thing that had queues was the long old school thing
>up behind l'M whose name I've forgotton and whose climbing was some of
>the worst I did in 3 seasons anyway.
>
>Catch the train to montenvers and walk up to the Envers. Cheapskates could
>again walk all the way from the bottom. Either camp or pay bed fee (SFA
>for austrian alpine club members) and bring your own food. Shitloads of
>awesome routes. Never queued there, even on the one weekend I was there
>when there were 60 people in the refuge.
>
>
source: imgur.com

Patrick Taglianut at the Plan 1983
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Patrick, NNE ridge of Peigne