Christoffers Eventyr: Bivouac des périades: The coolest hut in the world.

It's not the largest hut in the world, it's definitely not the most luxurious is the world, it's not even the highest hut in the alps, even though is located at a pretty good altitude.
The coolest hut in the world might be a big statement, but nonetheless I think it the coolest - at the very least in the Chamonix area.

In the weekend before Easter I enjoyed a super short trip to Chamonix to visit my old fried Kim, who had spent the season in Cham. We had three days to get a ski tour in before Kim was heading back to Denmark.

Because of the crappy snow (or lack thereof) this season, we had to go somewhere high, we'd like to visit new huts and ski new glaciers. A quick plan was made: Ski down the good part of Vallée Blanche break left up the Leschaux glacier, climb to the winter room of the Leschaux hut and spend the first night there. Next day climb back down to the glacier and skin up to the foot of the Mont Mallet glacier, skin the height of the glacier to the couloir giving access to the final rock scramble to the Bivouac des Périades.

Blue skies above Aiguille du Midi.

The ski down the Vallée Blache was surprisingly good given the expected conditions. We found large patches of untracked spring snow, in places it even felt like powder.

Leschaux hut perched high on the moraine wall. The retreating Leschaux glacier have transformed the hut access into 150 vertical meters of via ferrata steps and ladders.

I'm Sure Kim enjoyed the tiny metal steps in his duck-billed telemark boots.

The boardwalk normally leading to the entrance of the hut was removed to protect it from rock and ice fall during the winter.

Leschaux hut: Comfortable and reasonably clean, only a few dorks had left their trash behind. How hard can it be to carry the shit out, you carried in.