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# Refuge de la Balme

2000 m · sleeps 28 · [Beaufortain](/regions/beaufortain/) · FR

You can walk to 6 huts from here in a day, listed below with times and grades, and we read the calendars of 9 huts in this network daily, so a multi-night route through here can be checked night by night.

Refuge de la Balme is an alpine hut at 2000 m in the Beaufortain, FR. 6 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.

## How to book

You book Refuge de la Balme directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.

[Open the hut's booking page](http://www.refuge-balme-tarentaise.fr/)

Or contact the hut directly: [refugelabalme.tarentaise@gmail.com](mailto:refugelabalme.tarentaise@gmail.com), +33 6 84 35 07 41.

## Walkable from here

- [Refuge de Presset](/huts/refuge-de-presset/) - 0h52, 2.59 km, +10 m
- [Auberge de Valezan](/huts/auberge-de-valezan/) - 3h29, 8.37 km, +862 m
- [Refuge du Plan de la Lai](/huts/refuge-du-plan-de-la-lai/) - 4h13, 12.29 km, +891 m
- [Refuge de Plan Mya](/huts/refuge-de-plan-mya/) - 4h47, 11.85 km, +1037 m
- [Gite Pollen](/huts/gite-pollen/) - 4h51, 11.51 km, +1263 m
- [Chalet du Berger](/huts/chalet-du-berger/) - 5h04, 12.58 km, +1090 m

Times are estimates for an average fit hiker - terrain and conditions vary. Grades are the SAC hiking scale, judged the way the app judges them: the hardest ground that runs far enough to characterise the leg.

[Plan a route from this hut](/app?region=beaufortain&hut=hut_305)

[See the whole Beaufortain network](/regions/beaufortain/)

## About Beaufortain

26 huts connected by 184 walking routes in the Beaufortain massif.

## Planning a route through Refuge de la Balme

Booking one hut is the easy half. The work is the chain: every night needs a bed, at a hut you can walk to from the one before, on consecutive dates, and one full night sends you back to the start. From Refuge de la Balme there are 6 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Beaufortain network of 26 huts. HutScanner searches that network for a sequence that works on your dates, rather than leaving you to try the huts one at a time.

Refuge de la Balme books online but publishes no calendar HutScanner can read, so a route through it is planned around the 9 huts in Beaufortain that do publish one, and this night is confirmed with the hut itself. [Plan a multi-night route from Refuge de la Balme](/app?region=beaufortain&hut=hut_305).

If you plan trips through ChatGPT or Claude, they can run this same search for you without opening the app, over the regions HutScanner has reviewed by hand. How that works is described in [using HutScanner with AI assistants](/guides/ai-assistants-and-hutscanner/), and the endpoint is documented in the [OpenAPI spec](/api/openapi.json).