Snowshoe trail : Col du Lac Blanc

20181982-diaporama

20181982-diaporama

Hike to the Col du Lac Blanc

About : Snowshoe trail : Col du Lac Blanc

Welcome: All rubbish must be brought back by the hikers. This rule applies along the trail. The forest environment must be preserved, avoid cutting branches or mutilating them.

Tips:
- Make sure that snow does not get into your shoes by using gaiters.
-While snowshoeing:
- Remember to release the heel of the snowshoe! For your information, the back of the foot is sometimes tied up when going downhill when there is a lot of snow.
- Go with poles, essential for balance.
- Don't hesitate to tap your snowshoe with the pole from time to time, it allows to remove some of the snow and thus to lighten your step.
- Foggy glasses are usually a good indicator of too much body heat or too rapid a change in body heat. If this happens, you can reduce your speed, the number of layers of clothing or simply ventilate by allowing cool air to enter under your windbreaker.

Guidebook with maps/step-by-step

From Vaujany, buy a pedestrian ticket for the Dôme des Rousses at the lift ticket office. Remember to ask the lift desk hosts if the path is passable. Take the cable car up to its stop at l'Alpette, then take the second section of the cable car to the summit: the Dôme des Rousses. You descend, reach the snow, and the marked pedestrian route leaves on your left.

Several return options:
- Take the same route as the outward journey up to the cable car at Dôme des Rousses. It takes about 1h30 to go back up on the same route as the descent.

- Easy option: once you have finished your descent, you arrive at the DMC cable car arrival; you take it on the way down, get off at the next arrival. From here you change buildings to Poutran, another gondola that takes you to Oz station. From Oz station, buy a lift back up with the Alpette gondola, to l'Alpette. Then take the Alpette cable car to Vaujany.
- Difficult option: once you have finished your descent, you arrive at the arrival of the DMC cable car; you take it on the descent, get off at the next arrival. You leave the arrival station, and continue to the left on the pedestrian itinerary that goes down to the Besson lake. From the lake Besson you walk back along the pedestrian route marked with purple markers that takes you to the Alpette; count 2 hours to complete this crossing. Once you arrive at the Alpette, you take the cable car back to Vaujany.

For each of these options make sure you have enough time to get back to the lifts.

En bref

1 h 30

J+ : 6 m

2 km

Level bue - Medium

Map and GPX marking

Snowshoe trail : Col du Lac Blanc

Getting There

Services

  • Pets welcome

Opening

From 11/12 to 23/04 between 9 am and 4 pm.

Subject to favorable weather.

Prices

Free of charge.