Summer Expedition to the Dent de Crolles, Chartreuse, France.
24th July – 8th August 2015
Lead contact: Gary Vaughan
Phone: 07836 727131 E-Mail: gary@dorsetland.co.uk
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Dent de Crolles
One of France's largest and complicated cave systems.
The Dent de Crolles system in the Chartreuse, just to the west of the main French Alps. This popular cave invites comparisons with Ogof Ffynnon Ddu - the system has entrances on different levels, and the maze of passages that lies between them offers a variety of through trips. The vertical extent of the cave is 623m, while the total length exceeds 53km.
The Dent de Crolles itself is a spectacular
limestone hill ("dent" meaning "tooth") that rises
to 2062m and lies above
the village of St. Pierre de Chartreuse, some 30km north of Grenoble.
The most popular entrances to the cave system are theTrou du Glaz (50
minutes' stiff walk uphill from the Col du Coq, the most convenient place
to park) and the Guiers Mort, a spectacular resurgence also reached by
a 50 minute uphill slog, this time through the woods from the parking
place at Perquelin.
There are various entrances and trips between them, Trou du Glaz to Guiers Mort, P40 to Trou du Glaz,
Trou du Glaz to Grotte Chevalier, Trou du Glaz to Grotte Annette and a new through trip, Puits des Cartusiens to
Guiers Mort.
We camped at Camping de Martinière which is not far from the various cave entrances.
Updated 07.10.15