Pic de l'Étendard : Versant NE (voie normale - à pied)

A good outing snatched in bad weather period

Hard snow with good grip from hut to main climb up glacier. Then small layer of sugar snow caused problems for everyone switching to ski crampons and after about 100m vertical to portage for 100m then easy skiing again upto last 100m which still passed with skies but delicate

14h - 13h15 hut approach from cdcdf 6h - depart refuge 9h30 - summit 10h - depart a ski 11h15 - refuge 12h20 - parking cdcdf

Cold and cloud cover to start then sunshine globally very good

There is NO GAS and NO INDUCTION cooker hut was full - 3 on the floor seems NO WOOD in the entrance store room indoor toilet globally a nice hut