Nobody this site watches publishes an opening status for Refuge du Col de Balme, though it is a wardened hut and so has a season. The directory entry below describes the building; it says nothing about whether it is open today. That is a gap in our coverage, not a report that all is well.
About this hut
Position and altitude come from OpenStreetMap and have not been checked against IGN. The pin may be approximate.
How the directories below describe the building. These are properties of the hut, not a status — they do not expire, and we have not verified them. Any altitude below is a source’s own survey, not ours — where it differs from the figure at the top of this page, the one at the top is ours.
From the Refuges.info entry, written by their contributors and used under CC BY-SA 2.0. Last edited there Feb 2026; we pulled it 6 days ago.
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Everything published about this
Nothing. No source this site watches has published about Refuge du Col de Balme, so there is no history to show — which is a gap in our coverage, not a statement that all is well.
Refuge du Col de Balme — unknown · 2191 m — massif