Multipitch Atlas

Ariège Pyrenees

France

The Dent d'Orlu, near Ax-les-Thermes, is a huge granite-gneiss dome. It has long slab routes of up to 1,000 m on its east and south faces. You reach it from the Ascou side car park ('La poêle à frire'). Climb from late spring to autumn.

Routes
2
Grade span
5b+7a
Longest route: Pink Floyd
400 m

Where and when

Location and climate

When to go where

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Dent d'Orlu, foot of the east face · 1,785 m

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Mean daily high °C225812161919151263
Mean daily low °C−6−6−4−1379963−2−5
Rain days 1 mm or more111212151817171713121211
Sunshine hours a day7.18.510.010.811.612.412.912.110.48.97.46.8

● marks the usual climbing season. Averages for 1991-2020 at about 1785 m. Area climate from Open-Meteo reanalysis (about 10 km grid): the wall and valley can differ. Data: Open-Meteo, CC BY 4.0.

2 routes

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East face of the Dent d'Orlu (lower part), seen from the approach path

France · Ariège Pyrenees

Pink Floyd

Consistent, low-angled slab climbing on compact granite, with 10 pitches of 5a–5b+ on the big east face. Above all it is a long, sunny-morning moderate.

5b+10 pitches400 m

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On the slabs of Arabesque, Piliers des Cathares, Calamès

France · Ariège Pyrenees

Arabesque

The hard classic of the Calamès pillars above Bédeilhac: technical slabs, a well-bolted roof and a sustained 6c wall, capped by a short 7a slab pitch after a walk across a garden. Compact rock and close bolts make it a good place to try harder grades on a multipitch. The middle pitch is vegetated.

7a5 pitches180 m

Local words

At the crag and in town

All words and calls

French

corde
rope
dégaine
quickdraw
spit, goujon
bolt
plaquette
bolt hanger
relais
belay, anchor
Sec !
Take!
Du mou !
Slack!
Avale !
Take in!

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