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Céüse

Sport climbing near Gap, Hautes-Alpes, France. The rope and quickdraws to bring, and the send-temps forecast.

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What to bring

Bring an 80 m rope. It lowers off 72% of the 406 sport pitches listed here.

About 19 quickdraws. Few pitches here list their bolts, so that's estimated from pitch length.

What each rope covers

  • 50 m18%
  • 60 m38%
  • 70 m58%
  • 80 m72%
Median
30 m
Most common
25 m
Longest pitch
60 m

Bring 80 m or longer and 15–20 quickdraws. Many pitches are well over 30 m.

Source: rockbusters.net

Route data from theCrag contributors (CC BY-NC-SA), collected 2026-09. Single-pitch sport routes only. theCrag

Conditions

Rope & draws

Bring

80m

Covers 72% of pitches

Draws

~19

Your 70 m covers only 58%

Median
30 m
Most common
25 m
Longest pitch
60 m

Draws: Estimate: about 1 bolt per 2.5 m

Bring 80 m or longer and 15–20 quickdraws. Many pitches are well over 30 m.

Your 70 m only lowers off 58% of pitches here (up to ~30 m). Bring 80 m.
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Rope length

Route height (ground to anchor)

30m

Rope reaches

10 m of rope to spare.

Needed 60 mRope 70 m

Longest route or pitch

35 m

Comfortably ~30 m

  • •Knot the belayer’s end.
  • •Watch the middle mark.
  • •Topo heights are estimates.
  • •Traverses and roofs use extra rope.

Longest pitches at Céüse

  1. Cheese de luxe8a+60 m–
  2. Oizeaudrome8c60 m–
  3. Jolie Julie6c58 m–
  4. Masha et Moko8a55 m–
  5. Jeu d'ablette8a/a+52 m–

Rope by wall

The shortest rope that lowers off 90% of a wall's pitches (80 m where none does), and the share it covers.

WallRopeLongest
Nitshapa61 pitches80 mcovers 34%50 m
Grande Face56 pitches80 mcovers 48%52 m
Demi Lune53 pitches80 mcovers 87%50 m
Berlin41 pitches80 mcovers 78%40 m
Un Pont Sur L'infini33 pitches80 mcovers 82%60 m
Biographie24 pitches80 mcovers 83%40 m
Les Maitres du Monde22 pitches80 mcovers 64%60 m
Golots a Gogo19 pitches70 mcovers 95%40 m
Thorgal18 pitches60 mcovers 94%35 m
Plein sud15 pitches70 mcovers 93%35 m
Cascatelle14 pitches80 mcovers 86%40 m
Natilik14 pitches80 mcovers 64%50 m

The 12 biggest of 14 walls. Pick any wall under Rope & draws above to see its numbers.

Route data from theCrag contributors (CC BY-NC-SA), collected 2026-09. Single-pitch sport routes only. theCrag

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