Lac de bastan via ridges and summits
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Trail stats
- Distance
- 3.48 mi
- Elevation gain
- 1,601 ft
- Technical difficulty
- Moderate
- Elevation loss
- 1,503 ft
- Max elevation
- 8,597 ft
- TrailRank
- 26
- Min elevation
- 7,262 ft
- Trail type
- One Way
- Moving time
- one hour 52 minutes
- Time
- 3 hours 9 minutes
- Coordinates
- 994
- Uploaded
- September 18, 2022
- Recorded
- September 2022
near La Cabane, Occitanie (France)
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7,499 ft
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You will come to a pass after 10min nextb to picnic Bench. Turn right following ski piste (U can also just follow this piste all the way from carpark)
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7,648 ft
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50m after chair lift are various ski piste signs and small metal tower. A discreet stony footpath passes to left of this tower and climbs up (another goes flatter) take upward one
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7,761 ft
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After couple min climb reach metal cross. About ten metres after this veer off upward climbing trail to go left along west flank of hill on faint path
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7,937 ft
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No real reason to go around flank and easier to stick to main trail over summit and then carry on following fairly clear path with some Cairns to summit of first peak.
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8,050 ft
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From here is very steep drop off to east be very careful and follow path along ridge and steep down to dip on rockfall area
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7,940 ft
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Climb up again a short way and after 5min.path then avoids second summit and instead goes alongside flank of hill with views ofsummer pastures to arrive after few min to col Jetson.
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8,594 ft
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After a hard 25 min climb that's steep and at times very tight to cliff edge arrive at summit of biggest of day the lakes are sprawled below and pic du midi to north
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8,303 ft
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A very steep descent down off summit with drops on each side and some loose rock. Take care
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7,836 ft
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After a steep few min from summit path is clearer and mellower till I reach col de Bastan 15minnfrom summit. Head left west on clear easy zig zag trail down to higher if lakes
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