Cabane Chanrion offers a variety of ski tours and is also an important stop on the famous Haute Route Chamonix - Zermatt. You can reach it from Valsorey via the Plateau Couloir. The continuation to the Cabane Vignettes either leads over the Otemna glacier or over a more interesting route through the Les Portons. The most difficult peak in the region is La Ruinette. The FXB Panossiere can be reached via Tournelon Blanc. The Chalet Dix and the Arolla Valley can be reached via Cabane Dix with a fork to Mont Blanc Cheilon. The access from the Mauvoisin Dam is at risk from avalanches and is not recommended. Contact the hut for detailed information.
Tours starting from hut
Ski tours around Hut Cabane Chanrion
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La Ruinette 3875 m
Cabane Chanrion Walliser Alpen / Alpes valaisannes Switzerland
- Length of ascent8 km
- ascent1490 m
- duration7-9,5 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦♦
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦♦
Velkolepá a náročná túra na vrchol v monumentální horské krajině mezi ledovci. Z chaty Chanrion po trase do sedla Portons. Včas odboč doleva na ledovec Brenay. Klíčem k úspěchu je trefit kanál, kterým se vystoupá na svah Ruinette a poměrně snadno se pokračuje do sedla pod vrcholovou pyramidu. Tady je skidepot a dále v mačkách a s cepínem. Sjezd po trase výstupu.
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Pigne Arolla, Day 5 H.R. Chamonix-Zermatt 3790 m
Cabane Chanrion Walliser Alpen / Alpes valaisannes Switzerland
- Length of ascent9 km
- ascent1690 m
- duration7,5-9 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦◊
The Haute Route from Chamonix to Zermatt between the Chanrion and Vignetts huts offers two options. The clear number one is the line between the ridges above the Col Portons saddle. The only complication may be a few climb steps in the saddle, but it's all about a fantastic ski tour. A great highlight of this skitour is a bonus in the form of the Pigne Arolla summit. Then only the descent to Cabane Vignettes remains.
- Country
- Switzerland
- Montains
- Walliser Alpen / Alpes valaisannes
- Open (winter)
- mid March - mid May
- Beds
- 73
- Winterraum
- yes, 15 beds
- Shortening of access (cableway, lift, taxi, snowcat...)
- no
- Luggage transport
- no
- Card Pay
- no
- Shower
- no
- Wifi
- no
- UTM / CH1903 x ("longitude" E/W)
- 595520
- UTM / CH1903 y ("latitude" N/S)
- 87510
- GPX access to hut (waipoints, track)
- Chanrion-Hut_access_Mauvoisin.gpx
- GPX access to hut (track only)
- Chanrion-Hut_all_access_TRK.gpx
- Map
- Arolla 283 S, Swisstopo 1:50000 Chanrion 1346, Swisstopo 1:25000 Matterhorn 1347, Swisstopo 1:25000
- Guides
- Ski de randonnée Bas-Valais Die klassischen Skitouren (SAC, deutsch) Les classiques de randonnée à ski (SAC, francais) Walliser Alpen (Rother, deutsch)
- Phone (hut)
- 0041(0)27 771 33 22
- Phone (valley)
- 0041(0) 79 219 29 23
- Cell phone
- -
- Mobile Signal
- no
- Web
- chanrion.ch
- info@chanrion.ch
- Owner of hut
- CAS Section genevoise
- Cabane Chanrion
- Reservation
- phone, online former
- Online reservation
- chanrion.ch
- Start Point
- Mauvoisin
- UTM / CH1903 x ("longitude" E/W)
- 592471
- UTM / CH1903 y ("latitude" N/S)
- 94537
- Altitude
- 1855 m
- Ascent (height difference)
- 1260 m
- Time of Access
- 4,5 - 6 h
- Shortening lift
- no
- Avalanche danger
- www.slf.ch
- Weather
- SRF Meteo Meteoschweiz snow-forecast.com Pointe d'Otemma, mountain-forecast.com Mont Avril, mountain-forecast.com La Ruinette, mountain-forecast.com Lac Mauvoisin - meteoblue.com Mont Oulié, mountain-forecast.com Grand Teve, Meteoblue.com Lac Mauvoisin - yr.no
- Snow report
- snow-forecast.com - Verbier bergfex.ch - Verbier onthesnow.com skiresort.info snow.myswitzerland.com/
- Webcams
- Mont Fort 3300 m (Verbier) Lourtier - Val Bagnes
- Region
- Vallée de Bagnes Wallis.ch Lac Mauvoisin - verbier.ch
- Public traffic
- train SBB Bus - Postauto.ch
- Skiresort nearby
- Verbier
- Other links
- Swiss Tourism
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Tour du Ciel - day 3 3649 m
Cabane du Mountet Walliser Alpen / Alpes valaisannes Switzerland
- Length of ascent10,5 km
- ascent2420 m
- duration10-12 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦♦
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦♦
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Strahlhorn 4190 m
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- Length of ascent9,4 km
- ascent1250 m
- duration6-8 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦◊
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Breithorn - Zermatt 4164 m
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- Length of ascent3 km
- ascent440 m
- duration3-4 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦◊
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Diechterhorn (day 3, h.r. Swiss Glacier) 3389 m
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- Length of ascent12 km
- ascent2100 m
- duration10-12 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦♦
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦♦
Hiking on top of fantastic lookout tower. Glacier skitour. At the end, you will reach the summit from the north, to the top of the climbing terrain. Next continue to the Diechterlimi saddle and from there a fantastic downhill run to Gelmerhütte and then to the Gelmersee dam. If the lake is not frozen, the route along the northern bank can be very challenging, depending on the snow conditions. After crossing the dam, is coming downhill, often very complicated, traversing western slope to the Grimselpass road. After that, a bit on the parking lot under the Räterichsboden dam and at first a steep traverse to Bächlihütte - a hut on the top.
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Vorderes Galmihorn 3507 m
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- ascent760 m
- duration4,5-6,5 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦◊◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦◊
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Finsteraarhorn 4374 m
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- Length of ascent3,5 km
- ascent1280 m
- duration7-9,5 h
- Fitness difficulty ♦♦♦◊
- Technical difficulty ♦♦♦♦
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