Difficulty:
La Marcelinas: PD
La Cascade: TD
Quotation:
PD = kids and beginners; D, Difficult
= for beginner with some experience; D+, Difficult
Plus = for good climbers; TD = very
difficult for very good climbers
Information:
Tourism
Office des Orres: Tel:++33(0)4 92 44 01 61
Guide
office:
Bureau
des Guides: Jean-Jacques Jaoven Tél: 04.92.43.51.16
Guide
Office Les Orres: Tel 04.92.43.02.75, click to the
web site and discover much more about les Orres and what
you can do there
When:
Mai
to October
Timing:
La
Marcelinas:
To the via: 30 mn
Ferrata: 45 mn - 1 hour 
La
Cascade:
Ferrata: 3 h
For
both of them Marcelinas and theCascade: 5-6 hours
Length:
La Marcelinas
Elevation at the start: 1750 m.
Drop via: 185 m.
Length: 500 m.
La
Cascade
Drop
via: 485 m.
Length: 800 m.
By
car:
N54
Grenoble - Gap - Briançon N 94 l'Argentière la Bessée
- Embrun
2 km after Embrun take on the left on the D40 for about
12 km. Park zour car in the parking lot of the Park Rieu-Sec
1665 m. at Les Orres.
By Train:
Info S.N.C.F.
Access:
From
the parking take the path to a hut 1'700 m. If you would
like to start with La Cascade take the path on the way
down to your right towards the river.
Via
Ferrata de la Marcelinas:
It
is a very varied ferrata. It starts with a small wall
and an crossing
overhead where you will be pleased to use your arms until
a small platform. Then a new crossing with giddiness.
After some ways up you will see from the sky the village
of Les Orres... and the finish line is already in sight.
From
there, two options are offered to you: to go down or continue
in La Cascade.
Attention:
La Cascade is only for the experts
Via
Ferrata de la Cascade:
If you wish to continue since Marcelinas, take
on the left on left bank of the torrent and go down up
to 1550 m while following the marked out trace. You will
have been warned, it is high stunt-flying and very technique,
with nevertheless two possible loopholes. You begin with
80 very intense Mr. to a larch, and the escape first.
If you continue in a 
vertiginous crossing. The passages are technical and athletic.
An easier crossing will put back you in a second fault
and the 2 loophole. This second part is quite as long
as the first and quite as difficult.
If
you wish to continue from the Marcelinas, take on the
left on left bank of the torrent and go down the hill
to 1550 m. Follow the marks.
You
have been warned, it is very technique. Nevertheless two
loopholes may save you. You begin with 80m of very intense
ferrata until you reach a larch, and the first loophole.
If you continue in a vertiginous crossing, the passages
are technical and athletic. An easier crossing brings
you a rest and the second loophole. This second part is
as long as the first and as quite as difficult.
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