Vens - Rabuons GTM

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Start:REFUGE DES LACS DE VENS (FFCAM) End:REFUGE DE RABUONS (FFCAM)

Duration:05h30 Dénivelé positif en été:560 m Dénivelé négatif en été:430 m Distance en été:12.8 km Remarks: The path "Chemin de l'Energie" is cut off from the beacon 111 to the beacon 110. A signposted deviation is set up but the route is partly off-track : Note that you must have a compass and a map or a GPS THIS INFORMATION CONCERNS HIKING WITHOUT SNOW. Description: From the mountain hut of Vens (2378 m), take a tiny pathway Northwest that will cross the stream of Vens and join the pathway that runs along the upper lake by its right orographic bank. At the end of the lake, ignore a path that rises to the right, but continue on the main path till the beacon 27. There, ignore the pathway that rises to the right, but continue along the lake. At the beacon 26, the pathway will take a Southern orientation, pass between the last 2 lakes and start its ascent to the lake of Babarottes. After going along it, the pathway goes in a few zigzags to reach the ridge of the Babarottes (2506 m), then goes down zigzags until the path "Chemin de l'Energie" (beacon 113). Then take the left, ignoring the path that descends into the valley of Clai, but go on the large path for a panoramic traverse on the mountainside. At the beacon 112, ignore the pathway that descends to the right towards Saint-Etienne-de-Tinée, but continue straight ahead. Once reached the beacon 111, leave the "Chemin de l'Energie" and follow the markings of the deviation which leads, by a ascent Southeast, to the lake of Fer (Lac de Fer-2541 m)). From there, follow the Western shore of the lake and turn South and then Southwest to return to the "Chemin de l'Energie" above the lake Petrus (2380 m-beacon 110). Take it left and stay on it, ignoring the pathway that descends towards Saint-Etienne-de-Tinée. Similarly to beacons 103 and 104. Go past the EDF house and climb up to the banks of the lake of Rabuons (beacon 105) and to the mountain hut that overlooks it (Refuge de Rabuons-2509 m).