129 CH-VD T3+ Cergnement La Benjamine Creux des Mas Bovonne La Motte Tête à Bosset En Soreussex

Date : 2024.02.29
Duration on paper : 07h46
Duration real with breaks : 07h19
Difficulty for me : T3+ (for a single place everywhere else was T2 T3-)
Physical : difficult
Technical : difficult (just under the 1430m cliff everything else easy)
Fear : average
Average Slope : +13.5% -13.3%
Attendance ascent/summit/descent : null/null/null
Comment : Took the wrong way at the beginning dismiss that. I decided to climb the difficult part 1st because I guessed it would be complicated in winter (from map analysis never went there) and around 1430m decided to turn back under the cliff, water was dripping down and ice chunks regularly falling from above, being alone I deemed it too dangerous VIDEO but a few meters below met two hikers I talked to earlier and they tought it doable so followed them. Thanks Quentin and Mathieu without them I would have made a 2km detour and missed a nice wild trail in exchange for a road I was going to take on my way back already. After that it was almost all T2 I was on snowshoes they had shoes, that side of the mountain didn't have deep snow but must have been tiring to do on foot with the heavy snow. I climbed as close as I could safely to the Lion d'Argentine summit then turned back the descent was easy with only a few T3 segments in the forest that had now snow so I removed my snowshoes for them. Since Soreussex it was a snowy road until the bottom, I was supposed to take a shortcut to Le Fratchi below Bovonne but totally missed it and realized my mistake too late so continued on the road that still had snow anyway, very easy downhill.

Big respect to Q. & M. who continued after La Motte and completed the full trail around l'Argentine mountain in bad conditions, the slope on the SW and SE of the Lion d'Argentine are scary in winter.

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