Posté en tant qu’invité par le_sherpa:
des échanges de mails à l’époque que j’avais eu avec un suisse je crois (un camtocampiste)
Have you got pictures of this cab? People said to me that it is very
difficult to find it, do you confirm that. we will be 4 or 5 for this
walk,
to your mind, haw many people can sleep in the cab in maximum. Can I find
water near this cab?
It is not particularly difficult to find: it is marked in the correct spot
on the French maps. Also the Swiss maps indicate the point with its
altitude, but without indicating that it is a shelter. It sits against a
small bump in the landscape, on the uphill side.
After the Pas Noir, Rigole etc, you end up in the wide green fields of
Tenneverge which contains a number of streams. After you’ve crossed most
of them, staying roughly at altitude, you’ll find a vague trace leading
towards it. It is hard to miss if you calibrate your altimeter accurately,
but the shelter is difficult to see from a distance.
There was plenty of water in the streams when I was there (23-24/7) and
the water was clean too. There is in theory also a source a bit above the
shelter, but I couldn’t identify it amongst the many small streams that
were coming down from the mountains. I was told that the water flow there
is quite variable - no guarantee that there is water all the time.
The shelter easily offers place to 2-3 people to sleep on a wooden floor.
With a group of 4-5, you will be packed … Maybe 1-2 can sleep on the
earthen floor, but this was not particularly flat.
On July the 14th, I did the climb of tenneverge by Emosson and now I want
do it by Sixt (my friends had a house at sixt-fer-à-cheval.
The Pas Noir is an experience by itself - be sure to bring a description
of the tour (the one in Camp to Camp was excellent, I found). Be sure to
take, right at the start, the couloir on the far left rather than the rock
slope straight ahead, which looks trivial but which isn’t. After this, and
till the last 100 m of the horizontal traverse, things are fairly clear,
with a trace most of the time. And then, just before you get to the
Tenneverge fields, it becomes very exposed (much more than the Tenneverge
itself). One doesn’t note this too much on the way up, but on the way down
it is a pretty impressive.