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Lepidopteres

Name: Lepidopteres
Rating: 3.4

5.9 YDS 5c French 17 Ewbanks VI UIAA 17 ZA HVS 5a British

Routes in Aiguille du Peigne

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	Arête des Papillons T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a A0
	Le Lutin Des Neiges T 5.11a 6c 22 VII+ 22 E3 5c
	Le Maillon Manquant T 5.12b 7b 26 VIII+ 26 E5 6b
	Le Ticket, le Rond, le Carré et la Lune T 5.11a/b 6c 23 VIII- 23 E3 5c
	Lepidopteres T 5.9 5c 17 VI 17 HVS 5a
	Madame Rêve T 5.12d 7c 28 IX 28 E6 6b
	Petite Aiguillette T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	SW Ridge T,TR 5.10- 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
	Voie Contamine, West Face of Gendarme Rouge(Red) T 5.10a 6a 18 VI+ 18 E1 5a
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Type:	Trad, Alpine, 600 ft (182 m), 5 pitches, Grade III
GPS:	45.8966, 6.8977
FA:	unknown
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Shared By:	Eric_Dacus on Jan 11, 2012
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Description

P1: Short pitch of easy slabs, a few bolts, 5-easy
P2: More slab with intermittent cracks, 5.7
P3: Cracks and corners, 5.8
P4: More cracks and corners, 5.8+
P5: Cracks and flakes till you gain the ridge, 5.7

Location

Trend left from the base of the Arete des Papillons (the large ovious arete/ridge directly above the Plan station) and pick your way up talus (or early season snow) and onto a ledge system. There is one 5.7 step that has bolts at the top for an anchor if roping up. Take the ledge system up and further left than you might think necessary and when it fully flattens out make your way back right to the start of the route. The base of the route has green-ish rock that looks like and upwardly right sweeping crescent. The route starts on slabs below the left corner system and looks down on a lake.

The route can be rappelled directly, or alternatively once you reach the ridge crest there are rappel anchors about 8 feet below on the other side. Lastly, and the better option would be to continue along the Arete des Papillons for another pitch or two (5.easy but very exposed) until an obvious slung horn and rappel into the upper end of a couloir (dry in August 2011). Downclimbing, rappelling and trending generally left following a faint climbers trail leads back down to the moraine and back to the Plan station.

Protection

A few bolts protect the slabs of the first pitch, and there is fixed gear or bolts at the belays. A single rack, nuts + fingers to hands is probably fine.