![]() ![]() In Saint Rhémy, follow the main street and the road the the Great St Bernard pass for a short while. Cross the road to get to Etroubles or Saint Oyen, nice places to stay a night.Ħ) Etroubles (or Saint Oyen, or Saint Rhémy) - Great St Bernard Pass - Bourg Saint Pierre From here a path joins the forest road going down to Saint Rhémy. Walk in W direction through a beautifull larch-forest to Montagne de Barasson. Walk up to Combe Germain and walk along the Eternod stream. ![]() Descend through the Menouve valley and reach the Pointier valley and the village of Praille. ![]() Reach the Champillon collar, passing through pasturelands. The hiker will have to walk down the steep path to Ollomon to stay overnight (the huts of By and Champillonare not finished yet)ĥ) By-Ollomont - Etroubles - Saint Oyen - Saint Rhémy Not far from here, you leave the easy track and continue along the route leading to Farinet house. The track passes through a stony area, an area full of massive rocks and reaches the pasture land of Thoules. Leaving the upper Val de Bagnes, the route continues overlooking the green meadows of Ollomont. After a steep climb, the slope becomes more gradual and the route reaches the Fenêtre Durand. Descent to the Lancer bridge, cross the Dranse river and climb again to Chanrion Hut.įrom the hut, walk downwards through pasturelands and cross the Grand Charmotane bridge. After a short descent, the itinerary regains altitude and reaches Pierre à Vire, Lia and Tsesette, where the track passes at the foot of the eastern rampart of the Grand Combin. Walk over a stone area in order to reach La Tseumette. Otanes collar is the highest point of the Combins tour (2870 m). You can also reach the hut over the Avouillons collar by crossing the glacier.Ĭlimb short but steep to the Otanes collar by walking along the moraine on the right of the glacier. ![]() Walking up the right bank of the moraine, you join the Fionnay path and the FX Bagnoud Hut at Panossière. Follow the winding path and reach the footbridge crossing the tumultuous waters escaping from the glacier. Walk SE alternatively up and down on a path to reach La Maye where the moraine crest is left to walk down to the old Corbassière Glacier bed. Continue eastwards among blueberries and pine-woods and reach the Brunet Hut (food available). The itinerary heads N-E and reaches la Treutse after an hour. Night in the Col de Mille Hut, new hut with 40 beds built in 1996.įrom the Mille collar, you enter the district of Bagnes, the largest of Switzerland. In Italy : yellow diamond shaped signs with the lettering TDC.įrom Bourg, pass by the Lorette Chapel, Creux de Ma, Boveire d'en bas, Le Coeur, Erra and continue through pasturelands high over the Entremont valley. In Switzerland : vertical signs with arrows and yellow shaped signs It is also possible to start from every stop of the tour. The golden rule is inquire in advance about the conditions of the chosen route and the weather conditions with the managers of the huts or with the mountain guides “.The tour of the Combins is a six laps excursion and the start point is Bourg Saint-Pierre. The cantonal police of Sion invites the utmost caution: “When the freezing point is about 4,000 meters above sea level – reads a statement – it is better to be very careful or give up the excursion if in doubt. The conditions of the mountain these days are not optimal due to the temperature rise of the last few days. La “Voie du Gardien “does not present great mountaineering difficulties but is insidious precisely because of the possibility of ice collapses. The mountaineers had left a few hours earlier from the Cabane de la Panossière, a refuge at 2,650 meters above sea level which these days is open with caretaker on the occasion of the Grand Combin Week, one of the most fascinating and least frequented mountains in the Alps. The alarm from the shelters: “We are out of stock, summer at risk” ![]()
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