Tour du Rutor — Stage 5: Sainte-Foy-Tarentaise → La Rosière

A linking stage on the French side: from Sainte-Foy cross the villages of the Haute-Tarentaise, among baroque churches, forests and hanging meadows above the Isère valley, climbing gradually to the resort of La Rosière (1,850 m) on the Petit Saint-Bernard slope.

A gentle day on the balconies of the Haute-Tarentaise. The trail links the mid-slope hamlets above the Isère — Le Miroir with its stone-slab roofs, La Masure, Montvalezan — alternating cool woods, mown meadows and baroque chapels that recall the valley’s 17th-century wealth. Across the Isère glitter the glaciers of Mont Pourri and La Sache, in the heart of the Vanoise. La Rosière, a resort born in the 1960s, welcomes you with full services and a long tradition of hospitality on the pass: the Little St Bernard road, open only in summer, also crosses here.