Lake Perrin

Lake Perrin

Located at 2635 meters, the lake offers many entertainment possibilities and an excellent panorama. It’s really extended, in facts, and its banks are practicables, with meadows and little hills. It’s overlooked southwards by Pointe Perrin (2974 meters high), which shelters it from winds coming from Gressoney while another rocky top of “only” 2770 meters closes the lake basin westwards, but it allows a fantastic sight on Rosa. However, ho do we get there?

There are even three different ways: the first consists in descending from Pinter district by path 13C, and reaching Perrin’s path in 1.30 hours, or even less. To know more about that run, it’s good to see Pinter’s section on this website, where you’ll have to opportunity to read the chronicle of our excursion of 26^th July 2004. The more “orthodoxal” runs are, instead, two. First of all we’ve got path 14A, which starts from Mascognaz via Chavannes: it takes two hours and a half, altough you first have to reach Mascognaz, of course. Personally, I recommend you this run, because it’s a long run, which can bore you, but one you’ve crossed the worse point it’s almost flat, and when you’ve reached a strange rocky statue you are almost at 80 % of it all. The other path is more crowded... and every year I meet exhausted trekkers who hobble towards the lake, asking me how long will that torture last!

This path is number 13 which is more direct but really steeper: so, three hours of pure pain. My advice is the following: choose on the going the 14A and enjoy the walk, maybe hard but without Himalayan slopes in a few meters of path. On the way back, instead, choose the 13; it’s easy to be found, you just have to walk along the north bank until you reach a point where you can admire the glacier. Descending from there is easier than climbing, and it’s quicker. On mountains solidarity is holy: so, don’t miss to give your solace to the heroic trekkers of path 13! As I said before, Varasc.it has come back to beautiful lake Perrin on Monday, 26^th of July 2004. Here you are the chronicle of our excursion. We left path 13C just under the Pinter’s meadow, and I reached Perrin by 12.56, arriving at its impressive spur. Anyway, I reached the lake at 13.30 PM after the final steepy part I told before.

The lake has got a deep blue colour, s the same year. Unfortunately, the mobiles don’t work there, while they did on all the way. Starting from east bank, the one in Gressoney’s direction, Tracey and I have circumnavigated the lake, and we discovered that the only potable water is on this bank, where there are little waterfalls. After a long break passed playing and hunting little trouts, which always interest Tracey, we went down towards Mascognaz, arriving there by 16 o’clock.