High Route 2 — Stage 5: Planaval → Rifugio Chalet de l'Épée

Follow Valgrisenche valley floor via La Frassy and Gerbelle before the final climb to Chalet de l'Épée hut.

A mid-mountain stage along the east flank of the Valgrisenche: you touch the main village, worth a stop at the drap wool-weaving workshop, then skirt the great Beauregard reservoir — the dam that drowned the hamlet of Fornet in the 1950s — before the wooded climb to the Chalet de l’Épée balcony (2,370 m), face to face with the Grande Sassière.