The Puiseux shelter and the Provence mountain refuge

At an altitude of 2229 m, and roughly 1 hour 30 from Ailefroide, a natural cavity, situated beneath a large block of rock, was converted by the Club Alpin Français in 1875. The CAF also built the Provence mountain refuge two years later on the Clot de l'Homme plateau (2700 m). It was named after the flocks from Crau that grazed on the high mountains at the time. It is further up the Pelvoux route, and is of greater interest to mountaineers than the Puiseux shelter. However, it was not spared by bad weather.