Vanil Noir, Vanil de l'Ecri

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Distance: 6.49 mi
Elevation gain: 4,190 ft
Technical difficulty: Difficult
Elevation loss: 4,190 ft
Max elevation: 7,831 ft
TrailRank: 58
Min elevation: 4,154 ft
Trail type: Loop

Coordinates: 505
Uploaded: September 22, 2019
Recorded: September 2019

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near Petites Cergnes, Canton de Fribourg (Switzerland)

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Vanil Noir is the highest summit of the Fribourg Prealps, but also an impressive pointy peak with no "easy" path to the summit. We can either use the west ridge, not technically difficult but with exposed sections (specially the breach passage) or the south-east face, with grass and slippery rocks but well equipped with chains. In this track, I used the ridge on the way up and the face on the way down, also climbing easyly Vanil de l'Ecri before descending. All the route, however, is on marked trails. So if you stop seeing marks for a while and you are off-trail or in a too difficult section, you are probably off-track ;)

I followed (in reverse sense) this description from the website Altituderando, in French:
https://www.altituderando.com/Vanil-Noir-2389m-et-Vanil-de-l-Ecri-2376m-en-boucle-par-la-cabane-de-Bounavaux

TEMPS TOTAL: 6h