Refuge Robinot

The place

Well-kept unstaffed hut, perched on the heights above Sainte-Marie-aux-Mines in the Alsatian Vosges. Renovated by students of a forestry programme at the Lycée Louise-Weiss, it has a welcoming table, a wood stove and a sleeping area on a mezzanine reached by ladder. A spring flows about 200 metres away but its flow becomes irregular in summer. The outside stovepipe, rusted, draws poorly and causes smoke to blow back when lighting the fire. Access marked by the Club Vosgien's blue and yellow circle markers.