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Tête de Lapras: By the Mas valley

  • Activities:
    ski/snowboard touring, snowshoing
  • Min / max altitude:
    1204m / 2584m
  • Elevation gain / loss:
    1400m
  • Configuration:
    face
  • Main facing:
    E
  • Route type:
    return trip / abseil down
  • Duration:
    1 days
  • Toponeige technical grade:
    2.3
  • Toponeige exposure grade:
    E2
  • Labande descent grade:
    S3
  • Labande global grade:
    PD+
  • Compatible with:
    skiing
Summits, passes, lakes and cliffs:
Huts, usual bivis and valley accomodation:
Access points:
Le Mas  1203m r
Areas:
Dévoluy
Isère
France
Weather forecasts:
Météo Alpes Caplain Météo France
Avalanche bulletin:
Isère
Maps:
IGN 3337OT Dévoluy - Obiou - Pic de Bure
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Ascent

Starting from "Le Mas", go up W to cross through woods and meadows. After about 1.5km, reach the Pierre Baudinard shelter near an obvious large rock. Continue westward and go around a small hill (1699m). You can go round the right or left, and enter into the small valley of Mas, between the ridges of La Clape and Samaroux.

Continue up the valley at the bottom of Samaroux ridge until you reach a smooth slope (at 2178m), in front of a rock bastion. Overcome it either:

  • on the left by a short steep couloir,
  • on the right by smoother and wider slopes,

Reach a very wide flat section (2379m) and climb a short steep couloir (there are two other possible couloirs on the left) to get over a rock barrier and to reach smoother slopes up to the summit.

Descent

Ski down the ascent route.

Remarks:
  • Aspect: E for the Mas valley, S for the couloir and summit slopes
Gear:
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