Val Clarée Ski Tour – Photo Gallery

A selection of images from this relaxed ski touring venue near Briançon

  • Névache - The tour starts in this sleepy Provencal village
  • Buffère approach - Our first hut is reached in a couple of hours, starting on a cross country track and then zig zagging up though a larch forest
  • Chalet Buffère - A short approach leads to the Buffère. After lunch we'll do a transceiver exercise and maybe a short tour.
  • Buffère at night - The Buffère is typical of this area. Warm and comfortable and with hot showers!
  • Dry your skins! The stove at the Chalets Buffère
  • Buffère tour - The terrain in the Val Clarée is generally very mellow. Skier: Lise Tonelli
  • Buffère tour - Snow conditions are generally very good. This is grippy windpack in March 2017. Skier: Anne Winther
  • Powder hounds. This is also in March 2017, in perfect hero snow. Skier: Charlie Cope
  • Vallon Buffère. Here is Lise Tonelli with the Buffère behind showing the vast area of unskied snow in half term 2018
  • An easy skin takes us over to the Chardonnet with some spectacular rock scenery in the background
  • The Chardonnet nestles among a small stand of larch trees
  • Chardonnet hut gardien - Nicolas is a super friendly guy and a great cook
  • There's great terrain straight out of the door at the Chardonnet
  • Tranquillity. The Chardonnet is a beautiful pristine area
  • Lushness . Lise Tonelli doing her thing above the Chardonnet
  • Laval hut - Even when the weather is poor, there's plenty of good tree skiing in the Val Clarée
  • Laval window - The Laval is another comfy hut with showers and a warm and welcoming atmosphere
  • Tour de Moutouze - The classic tour from the Laval
  • Moutouze - In the right conditions, this classic tour often gives a perfect transition from powder to spring snow
  • Ricou kitchen - The Ricou is perhaps the most rustic of the Clarée huts, with alpine charm
  • Ricou terrace - A perfect post tour lunch venue
  • Here's an image to sum up the mellow wilderness that is the Val Clarée