Dortoir alpe Baravex

The trail sets off from Ville, a hamlet of Allein in the Great St Bernard valley, at 1404 metres. It follows the track serving the alpine pastures of the slope, gaining 559 metres of ascent in a little over four kilometres: a steady but never harsh climb, graded E. The route crosses the belt of high mountain pastures and larch woods typical of this Aosta Valley altitude, where the hay meadows give way to grazing land dotted with stone huts. As you climb, the view opens onto the valley ridges and the grassy slopes worked by summer herds. You finally reach, at 1938 metres, the Dortoir Baravex refuge, an unstaffed shelter set near the pastures, just below the farm road that continues towards the higher alps. It is an itinerary for those seeking an honest walk, made of measured effort and authentic pastoral landscape.