High Route 2 — Stage 5: Planaval → Rifugio Chalet de l'Épée
Advertencias
- Check weather and residual snow early season
- Book huts in peak season
1 / 212 km
+915 m
−51 m
4.5 h
Nivel físico
~1323 kcal estimadas
Mapa y ruta
Traza GPX oficial — Región Valle de Aosta / lovevda.it
Descripción
Puntos clave
Salida
Planaval · 1545 m
Llegada
Rifugio Chalet de l'Épée · 2366 m
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.
Puntos clave
La Frassy
1673 m · 6 km from start
Ciencias de la Tierra
Geología y paisaje
Side valley with hydroelectric basin: gneiss and crystalline schist outcrops, glacial cirques and lacustrine deposits in the valley floor.
Historia y cultura
Valgrisenche drap, rough wool woven on 18th-century looms, is one of the last traditional weaves in the Alps: the Les Tisserands cooperative has kept it alive since 1969.
Fuentes de agua
Fountains in Planaval and Valgrisenche; Chalet de l'Épée hut.
Cómo llegar
VITA buses and connections from Aosta; check seasonal timetables at vita.it.
Aparcamiento
Parcheggi comunali nei paesi di valle; verificare limitazioni in alta stagione.
Refugios y vivacs
Galería de fotos
Photos are published immediately. JPG/PNG/WebP, max 6 MB.
Flora del sendero
Etapas contiguas
AEditado y verificado por Andrea Rama
Fuente de datos: Catasto Sentieri Regione Autonoma VdA — Alta Via n.2 · Open data — DGR 899/2014
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