Guest Book

I was with a group of 7 SUSS cavers - lucky enough to visit the Dent de Crolles in October 2004. Two and a half years later and I'm days away from flying out of Sydney airport to return to the Chartreuse. Alas - no caving this trip, but a week staying with the (French) in-laws should be ample compensation. My wife's brother Xavier has promised some beautiful walks, and judging from your site I'm sure he wont disappoint. Thank you for the information and photos - which make me very keen to get back to this beautiful part of the world.

I've lived in Saint Pierre De Chartreuse now for a couple of years with my French wife. The information on this site is absolutely great and much needed. We recently helped the Saint Pierre tourist office translate their tourist guide into English, would be a great idea to have this web site linked from the St Pierre tourist site.

Lovely to hear that folks from Old Blighty are discovering this wonderful area of France. To my knowledge, I was the first 'ros beef' to settle around here (1999).

Let me know where your new house is and whether we can help out in any way. As Gite owners, we always recommend this excellent site to increasing numbers of English/American/Australian guests. Well done John!

Just bought a house in this beautiful area and this site will be a great help to find my way around the stunning countryside. Thankyou!

I came across your website whilst browsing Google for walking guides in Chartreuse. My husband and I will shortly be taking a holiday in Grenoble and this website has really helped us plan our holiday in advance.

Well done and many thanks

I have just returned from a caving and walking holiday in Chartreuse and I would like to pass on my thanks to you for providing such an excellent walking guide to the area. I was inspired by your electronic guide book to arrange the walking holiday which I have just combined with some traverses of the Dent De Crolles caves. I used your guide to find the cave entrances and on our other days we used your guide to visit the summits of many of the surrounding peaks. The descriptions of the routes and the details in your guide were all excellent and accurate. We had very little difficulty in following your routes up all the mountains we visited and the guide really made the holiday a great success. I felt that the routes were well thought out and engineered to combine an exciting way up the mountain with an interesting and simple way down.

I have one comment for you so that you could update your information. The traverse beneath the summit cliffs of the Dent de Crolles towards the Grotte Annette that you describe seems to have fallen into disuse in favour of a path 50m lower down the hillside. The lower path is a more logical route on the return and is less exposed than the upper one. It is now more worn and clearer to find but there is no security cable but does not need one and a cairn is developing at the start. The upper path is growing over and it is only the presence of the cable that gives confidence that one is on the correct path. The cable has become quite frayed at the far end belay. To return along the upper path requires keeping high on fading steps to find the correct level.

The best walk we did was Chamechaude via the Jardin. It was an excellent day out which we would never have thought of without your guide. It would have helped though if you had said in the introduction that it was a reverse helter skelter route up the mountain. I was constantly looking for a way up through the summit cliffs via gulleys and almost spoilt the enjoyment of the complete traverse by climbing up the fixed cables in the br