Project: Come and have fun in this village of Oprierre known worldwide for its climbing site. This year, the town hall of Orpierre and the association Les Villages des Jeunes and the Parc Régional des Barronies would like to start a campaign to preserve and enhance the ancient built heritage of the village. For the summer of 2022, the town hall would like us to rehabilitate a transverse passage between two streets of the village arranged by a staircase partly concreted. Today, this passage is closed for the safety of the residents. The purpose of the project at the end of the construction site is to reinstall pedestrian access to this passage and to make it attractive by installing a dry stone planter that will be able to accommodate ornamental plants. This project will also be part of a partnership with the UAC (Union APARE-CME) and its construction site in Pernes-Les-Fontaines. We plan to visit the group for a weekend and thus meet them, visit their workcamp and spend some quality time together. Conversely, the group from the Pernes-Les-Fontaines workcamp will come to visit you, the occasion for a giant international meal...
Work: Do you want to learn ancient masonry techniques and register your action in accordance with the objective 12 of sustainable development (UN) in favor of sustainable consumption and production ? How to use ancient and ecological materials? You will have to start the work by clearing the brush from the site to allow a better visual and thus clear the stones of a low wall adjacent to the staircase to rebuild it according to the dry stone construction technique. You will then restore the steps of the staircase. On the lower part of this passage, the town hall wishes that we intervene on a low wall that needs to be restored and thus to be used as base for the construction of a planter which would allow at the same time an aesthetic installation as well
as a materialization of the direction of use of the passage. You will have to build low walls according to the dry stone technique (without mortar) and be creative to make the place as pleasant as possible. The work represents 30 hours in a week. Evenings and weekends are free for activities you choose to organize together.
Accommodation and food: You will be accommodated in individual tents at the campsite Les Catoyes in the town of Sainte Colombe, 4km away (the journeys between the site and the campsite will be made by mini-bus). You will take part in turn in the different missions of daily life according to a plan that you will define with the animation team and that will accompany you to realize them. These missions are to make sure that the camp is clean, to elaborate the menus and to do the shopping (local products are preferred), to prepare the meals for the group (vegetarian, vegan and other specific diets possible), to organize the leisure activities and the outings. The lunch will be cold because it will be taken on the site. Bring a mattress, a good comforter (the nights can be cold) and a pillow (to be adapted according to your needs).
Location: The village of Orpierre is located in the south of the Hautes-Alpes department, 14km west of Laragne Montéglin.
Leisure activities: You will take advantage of the natural environment of Orpierre and in particular of its 500 climbing routes which allow all beginners as well as seasoned climbers to enjoy themselves. You will be able to take advantage of the numerous bathing places very easily accessible, like the gorges of the Méouge or Riou. You will have the leisure to hike in the surrounding massifs and will be able to initiate you to many mountain sports (viaferrata, climbing, etc.). As a group, you will decide on the activities and discovery outings you wish to set up (subject to distance).
Closest train station: You can arrive by train from Grenoble or Marseille directly at the Laragne-Montéglin station. Carpooling is also possible to Laragne because the city is on the road between Grenoble and Marseille. The meeting times at the Laragne train station will be communicated to you on the route map (no times available at this time).