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# Refuge du Lac Blanc

2300 m · sleeps 18 · [Vanoise](/regions/vanoise/) · FR

You can walk to 8 huts from here in a day, listed below with times and grades, and we read the calendars of 26 huts in this network daily, so a multi-night route through here can be checked night by night.

Refuge du Lac Blanc is an alpine hut at 2300 m in the Vanoise, FR. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.

## How to book

You book Refuge du Lac Blanc directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.

[Open the hut's booking page](https://www.refugedulacblanc-vanoise.com/en/)

Or contact the hut directly: [lacblancvanoise@gmail.com](mailto:lacblancvanoise@gmail.com), (+33) 06 78 28 73 17.

## Walkable from here

- [Refuge l'Auberge de Bellecombe](/huts/refuge-l-auberge-de-bellecombe/) - 0h41, 1.79 km, +121 m
- [Refuge du Plan du Lac](/huts/refuge-du-plan-du-lac/) - 1h29, 4 km, +196 m
- [Refuge d'Entre Deux Eaux](/huts/refuge-d-entre-deux-eaux/) - 2h50, 7.4 km, +458 m
- [Refuge de la Femma](/huts/refuge-de-la-femma/) - 4h43, 13.01 km, +474 m
- [Refuge du Col de la Vanoise](/huts/refuge-du-col-de-la-vanoise/) - 4h59, 13.63 km, +552 m
- [Refuge de la Leisse](/huts/refuge-de-la-leisse/) - 5h07, 14.03 km, +550 m
- [Refuge de l'Arpont](/huts/refuge-de-l-arpont/) - 5h22, 13.35 km, +1154 m
- [Refuge du Vallonbrun](/huts/refuge-du-vallonbrun/) - 6h45, 17.78 km, +1034 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=vanoise&hut=hut_3215)

[See the whole Vanoise network](/regions/vanoise/)

## About Vanoise

The Vanoise massif in the French Alps holds a dense network of staffed refuges linking the Parc National de la Vanoise with the surrounding valleys. Park huts book through the Vanoise reservation portal; CAF-owned refuges book through the FFCAM system, so a single traverse often spans two booking sites. Reservations are mandatory during the staffed season and two to four months ahead is usually enough for July and August.

Guides for this region: [Bivouac or huts in the Vanoise: what the trip really costs](/guides/bivouac-vs-huts-vanoise-cost/) · [Wild camping and bivouac in the Vanoise](/guides/wild-camping-bivouac-vanoise/)

## Planning a route through Refuge du Lac Blanc

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 du Lac Blanc there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside a Vanoise network of 38 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 du Lac Blanc books online but publishes no calendar HutScanner can read, so a route through it is planned around the 26 huts in Vanoise that do publish one, and this night is confirmed with the hut itself. [Plan a multi-night route from Refuge du Lac Blanc](/app?region=vanoise&hut=hut_3215).

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).