In reply to IainRUK: Couvercle hut, Cabane de la Maye, Conscrits hut, Ecrins hut, Pelvoux hut and none of these are even in the climb to a hut category
Given that quite a few hut approaches are graded climbs in their own right - eg the Couvercle (F+), Conscrits (F) and the Ecrins (F) - I'm not sure that suggesting that the Tryfan and Snowdon ridges are *only* hut walks is particularly illuminating.
In reply to IainRUK:
I don't think he said, or meant that. It was in reference to the fact that some approaches to alpine huts are harder than Grib Goch even though the alpine approaches have no grade.
The approach to the Mischabel hut is longer and harder than Tryfan North Ridge, and is given W2. It's also the steepest walk in I've done. Coming down is knee shattering.
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> They do in Martin moran's guidebook- is that not common practice? It's.the only alpine guidebook I've got so I assumed they all did the same
They do, or at least all the common ones do. Some huts get quite high grades for the approach.
In reply to Malpractise: What about Scotland then? Say Aonach Eagach or Curved Ridge, or Tower Ridge? I guess it depends whether you assume they'd be in their winter or summer condition...
Quite right - as I tried to point out in an earlier posting...
Pejorative comparisons between the OP's routes and hut approaches don't help answer her/his question. But at least Iain, you and I seem to be agreed that the answer is F.
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