L'Arpelin, Pic de Rochebrune, Pic Est de Cote Belle

L'Arpelin - 2604M

125M Prominence

44.82636, 6.74187

July 31, 2025

Pic de Rochebrune - 3320M

1019M Prominence

44.82229, 6.78755

July 31, 2025

Pic Est de Cote Belle - 2914M

114M Prominence

44.81368, 6.76348

July 31, 2025

12.2 KM

1470M Ascent and Descent

5H 30M C2C

On my last day in the Alps, before heading back down to the plains of Turin, I knew that I wanted to bag a few more peaks. From the research I had done in the previous days, I found Pic de Rochebrune to be an easy and quick outing on a P1K over 3000M. While camping out the night before in a valley adjacent to Rochebrune, I found out that I might be able to tag a few more nearby summits to the next day's mission. Firstly, L'Armelin would be a super quick and easy bonus right from the start. The other summit I would try to add on is Pic Est de Cote Belle. This one was a bit more of a mystery, as the only info I could find on an ascent, aside from ski touring in the winter, was on the other side of the peak, and climbing it from that side would have extended my trip significantly. After coming up with a loose plan, I caught an uncomfortable night's sleep on my slowly deflating air mattress, and got going. I first made my way into the small hamlet of Le Laus, from here I hitched a ride up to the Col de .

Pic de Rochebrune (Center) from the valley in which I camped the night before

Looking at L'Arpelin from the start of the trail just after Col D'Izoard

Looking at the route up L'Arpelin from Col Perdu

L'Arpelin Summit

A cross on the summit of L'Arpelin

Looking towards Pic Rochebrune (Left) and Pic Est de Cote Belle (Right)

A panoramic shot looking North-West

Looking up at Pic Rochebrune from Col Des Portes

Making my way up the loose terrain from Col Des Portes

Looking down one of the loose gulleys

A fixed rope I climbed at the top of the gulley on the ascent

Summit views with Monviso dominating the view

Pic de Rochebrune summit

Looking down the gulley I would descend off the summit

Looking towards Pic Est de Cote belle from under Col des Portes

Typical terrain to climb Pic Est de Cote Belle

Looking down at the sea of choss

Looking back at Pic de Rochebrune

Pic Est de Cote Belle summit

Looking at Les Ecrins from the summit, with L'Arpelin bottom right

Scree skiing my way down the North face of Pic Est de la Cote Belle back
down to the trail

One final look at Pic Rochebrune from Col Perdu

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