Val Ferret — Val Ferret svizzera
Tour du Mont Blanc — Stage 4: Rifugio Elena → La Fouly
Advertencias
- Snowfields possible on the passes until early July
- Book overnight stops in peak season
1 / 29.7 km
+503 m
−1045 m
5.5 h
Nivel físico
Mapa y ruta
Traza GPX — verifica sobre el terreno antes de caminar
Descripción
Puntos clave
Salida
Rifugio Elena · 2060 m
Llegada
La Fouly · 1605 m
From Rifugio Elena a steady climb leads to the Grand Col Ferret (2,537 m), the Italian-Swiss border and the watershed between the Mediterranean and the North Sea. A long grassy descent through the Swiss Val Ferret, past the La Peule alp, ends in the village of La Fouly (1,610 m).
The climb to the Grand Col Ferret is steady and always well graded: an hour and a half of grassy switchbacks with the Pré de Bar glacier sinking gradually behind you. At the pass — where a boundary stone marks the border — the landscape changes character at once: the Swiss side is softer, all pastures and rolling knolls, grazed by the cows of the La Peule alp, where you can buy alpine cheese. The long descent to La Fouly follows the young Drance through larches and clearings; the village has a shop, hotels and buses to Orsières.
Puntos clave
Grand col Ferret
2537 m · 2.3 km from start
Ciencias de la Tierra
Geología y paisaje
The Mont Blanc massif is a Hercynian granite batholith (~300 million years old) uplifted by the Alpine orogeny: the pale Mont Blanc granite — the “protogine” — forms the Peuterey and Géant spires. At its feet the tour walks on older crystalline basement rocks (gneiss and micaschist) and, in Val Veny, on the Mesozoic limestones of the Pyramides Calcaires, a sliver of sedimentary cover pinched between the granites. The Miage and Brenva moraines are textbook examples.
Historia y cultura
The Grand Col Ferret has marked the boundary between the Aosta and Valais worlds for centuries: herds, salt and wine crossed here. La Fouly is the historic base of the Swiss Val Ferret guides.
Fuentes de agua
Water at the stage's support points (Rifugio Elena, La Fouly). On the high ground and at the passes springs are not guaranteed: fill bottles in the valley and at the huts.
Cómo llegar
Cross-border stage: on the foreign sides local public transport applies (PostAuto in Switzerland, line buses in France/Piedmont). Check seasonal timetables; in peak season several access links run by reservation only.
Aparcamiento
Refugios y vivacs
Galería de fotos
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Etapas contiguas
AEditado y verificado por Andrea Rama
Fuente de datos: Tour du Mont Blanc — itinerario internazionale segnalato · Traccia calcolata su rete sentieri OpenStreetMap (ODbL); verificare sul terreno
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