Tour du Rutor — Stage 2: Rifugio Albert Deffeyes → Planaval
Advertencias
- Snowfields possible on the passes until early July
- Check the weather: long high-altitude stages with few escape routes
- Exposed equipped sections: surefootedness and a head for heights required
- Book overnight stops in peak season
1 / 215.5 km
+1111 m
−2163 m
10.5 h
Nivel físico
Mapa y ruta
Traza GPX — verifica sobre el terreno antes de caminar
Descripción
Puntos clave
Salida
Rifugio Albert Deffeyes · 2487 m
Llegada
Planaval · 1554 m
From the Deffeyes hut follow the Alta Via 2 line over the Passo Alto (2,857 m) and the Col de la Crosatie (2,829 m) in sequence, among scree, snowfields and short equipped sections. The descent passes Lake Fond and ends in Planaval (1,557 m), in Valgrisenche.
The tour’s alpine stage, shared with the Alta Via 2. From the hut you traverse the glacial amphitheatre among roches moutonnées and tarns, then climb to the Passo Alto: a rocky notch at 2,857 metres with views from Mont Blanc to the Rutor glacier. The descent into the Orgères valley is steep and on scree at first; snowfields linger well into July. You follow the stream down to the meadows of Planaval, a tiny hamlet of Arvier beneath the wall of the Becca du Lac. No support points along the way: full autonomy in water and food.
Puntos clave
Passo Alto
2857 m · 2.8 km from start
Col de la Crosatie
2829 m · 8.3 km from start
Ciencias de la Tierra
Geología y paisaje
The Rutor group belongs to the outer Penninic domain: micaschists, fine gneisses and Permo-Carboniferous quartzites of the Ruitor zone, with striking folds visible on the walls above the Deffeyes hut. The three lakes and roches moutonnées of the valley are the work of the Rutor glacier, fast retreating yet still the Aosta Valley’s third largest; at the Col du Mont the Versoyen calcschists crop out with relics of oceanic crust.
Historia y cultura
The catastrophic outbursts of the Rutor glacial lake (1430-1864) repeatedly flooded the Dora as far as Aosta: processions climbed to the glacier to appease them. The lake’s natural drainage ended the era of the “Rutor floods”.
Fuentes de agua
Water at the stage's support points (Rifugio Albert Deffeyes, Rifugio Deffeyes, Planaval). On the high ground and at the passes springs are not guaranteed: fill bottles in the valley and at the huts.
Cómo llegar
Aosta Valley side served by VITA buses and connections from Aosta; many valley heads have summer shuttles. Check seasonal timetables at arriva.it / vita-vda.com.
Aparcamiento
Refugios y vivacs
Galería de fotos
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Etapas contiguas
AEditado y verificado por Andrea Rama
Fuente de datos: Tour del Rutor — itinerari La Thuile / Valgrisenche / Haute-Tarentaise · Traccia calcolata su rete sentieri OpenStreetMap (ODbL); verificare sul terreno
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