Tour of the Matterhorn — Stage 3: Arolla → Les Haudères
Avisos
- Book overnight stops in peak season
8 km
+53 m
−673 m
3.5 h
Nível físico
Mapa e percurso
Traço GPX — verifique no terreno antes de caminhar
Descrição
Pontos-chave
Partida
Arolla · 2009 m
Chegada
Les Haudères · 1441 m
A short recovery stage: from Arolla descend along the Borgne through the stone-pine woods that give the village its name, past La Gouille and the Satarma meadows, to Les Haudères (1,452 m), a Valais village of dark timber barns.
A recovery day in the heart of the Val d’Hérens, one of the most authentic valleys in Valais. The trail descends along the Borgne among the stone pines — the “aroles” that give the village its name — past the blue tarn of La Gouille, a favourite with families, and the barn-dotted meadows of Satarma. At Les Haudères the sun-blackened timber houses crowd the lanes as they did three centuries ago; a half-hour detour climbs to Evolène, ranked among Switzerland’s most beautiful villages. All services, buses to Sion, and time to rest the legs.
Ciências da Terra
Geologia e paisagem
The Matterhorn is the world’s most famous textbook of Alpine geology: its pyramid is a sliver of African continental crust (Dent Blanche nappe, Arolla and Valpelline gneisses) resting on the green ophiolites of the Piedmont-Liguria ocean, visible at its base. The tour walks along this very suture: serpentinites and calcschists in the Cignana and Valcournera valleys, brown gneisses above Zermatt and Arolla.
História e cultura
Evolène and Les Haudères keep the traditional costume still worn on feast days; the valley is the last in French-speaking Valais where the Franco-Provençal patois remains an everyday living language.
Pontos de água
Water at the stage's support points (Arolla, Les Haudères). On the high ground and at the passes springs are not guaranteed: fill bottles in the valley and at the huts.
Como chegar
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.
Estacionamento
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Etapas adjacentes
AEditado e verificado por Andrea Rama
Fonte dos dados: Tour del Cervino / Tour du Cervin — itinerario internazionale · Traccia calcolata su rete sentieri OpenStreetMap (ODbL); verificare sul terreno
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Val d’Hérens (Vallese)
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