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Drive up the Saint-Véran road to the south-east, then turn right onto the Villard road and continue along the Clausis road for 5 km to the car park located below the old marble quarry before the Clausis Chapel.
This unpaved but easily passable road is closed during the summer holidays between 6am and 6pm (July and August).
During this period and outside these hours, a shuttle bus runs to the car park.
(S/E) From the car park, head up the track to the south-east.
(1) Cross the Clausis bridge and pass beneath the chapel of the same name.
200m after passing the chapel, a sign directs you to continue along the track towards the Refuge de la Blanche and Col Blanchet.
The track climbs gently through the south-southeast and then southeast pastures.
(2) At the Moutière junction, leave the track and take the path on the right towards Col Blanchet. This leads to the next junction of marked trails.
(3) At the signpost, leave the Col de la Noire path on your right and take the path on the left towards La Blanche and Col Blanchet. This path leads to the Blanche junction near the lake and the Refuge de la Blanche.
(4) At the signpost, take the path on the right again towards Col Blanchet.
This path climbs steeply in hairpin bends before reaching a flat area near the Lac Inférieur pass. Follow the path to the right of the cairn. The path climbs across the slope, overlooking Lac Inférieur, and leads to Col Blanchet.
(5) From the pass, follow a path up the schist ridge to the left, heading north-east.
The path joins the boundary ridge, and the summit presents its south face and its impassable vertical wall. There is no point in visiting the cairns on the right of the ridge.
Descend via an obvious couloir to the left for about twenty metres in elevation, so as to bypass the summit bastion on the left.
Follow the cairns and then the red and white paint markings which lead to the foot of a gully-like corridor carved into the rock.
Climb up this gully on the right, then use your hands to get over the wedged boulder.
Once past it, turn immediately left in a hairpin bend to take the cairn-marked ledge, then reach the summit marked by a simple cross.
(6) Return in the opposite direction via the same route to your car park (S/E).
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