Escalades: Jura, Vaud, Chablais, Bas-Valais, Sanetsch

Author Claude & Yves Remy
Published Privately published (2019)

Review

The guidebook covers the area north of Lake Geneva, the Rhone valley down to Martigny and also the area around Leysin and Les Diablerets. 287 pages, 36 areas each with several crags, and the crags are covered comprehensively, i.e. both easy and hard routes are included.

For hard routes (6b/c+ upwards) a much better option than the filidor Extreme West which has almost no coverage for this area.

For easier routes it includes many smaller crags not in Plaisir West, the only notable omission from Plaisir West being Pissevache, although Plaisir West also includes two crags south of the Rhone valley between Martigny and Sion, namely Bramois and Pierre Avoi.

Almost impossible to get outside of Switzerland (except by ordering off the internet?!), they have it in Passe Montagne in Monthey for about 55 Swiss francs.


Crags covered by this Guide
Valais crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Barme du Flon 17 Limestone S
Chavalon 15 Limestone SE
Collombey 34 Limestone N
Dorénaz 166 Gneiss SW
Éole 26 Gneiss E
La Balmaz 46 Granite E
Le Séchon 42 Limestone S
Massongex 128 Limestone NE
Miéville 326 Granite SE
Rocher de Barme 61 Limestone SE
Sanetsch 182 Limestone SE
Sex du Corbeau 55 Limestone NW
Vernayaz 71 Gneiss all
Vionnaz 89 Limestone all
Vaud crags # climbs Rocktype Faces
Aigle 46 Limestone W
Aiguilles de Baulmes 160 Limestone S
Dent d'Hautuadon 5 Limestone NW
Dents de Morcles 23 Limestone all
Diamant - Leysin 36 Limestone S
Drapel 171 Limestone SW
Éclépens 21 Limestone NE
Falaise de l'échelle 35 Gneiss W
Falaises Dufour 51 Limestone W
Le pont 29 Limestone SW
Le Tour d'Aï 330 Limestone S
Les Avants 28 Limestone S
Les Diablerets 333 Limestone all
Miroir de l'Argentine 14 Limestone all
Pierre du Moelle 77 Limestone S
Rochers de Naye 7 Limestone S
Saint-Cergue 77 Limestone SW
Saint-Loup 364 Limestone SW
Segray 54 Limestone E
Sex du Parc aux Feyes 63 Limestone N
St. George 66 Limestone SE
St. Triphon 150 Limestone all
Verschiez 44 Limestone S
Veyges 32 - ?
Villeneuve - Scex du Châtelard 34 Limestone NE
Yvorne 64 Limestone S

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