On foot · Champéry, Valais · June 2019
Bonavau and Barme, Emma in paradise
A loop from Grand-Paradis above Champéry, via Bonavau and Barme: 15 kilometres, 1,200 metres of climbing, waterfalls, flowers everywhere and the Dents Blanches as a backdrop.
- Date
- June 2019
- Distance
- 15 km
- Elevation gain
- 1,200 m
- Route
- Grand-Paradis · Bonavau · Barme
The route · indicative
The climb
Waterfalls and rhododendrons
The path leaves the forest for the first alpine pastures, where wooden chalets huddle beneath the cliffs. The stream tumbles in cascades between the rocks.
At the end of June, everything bursts into bloom: rhododendrons, orange lilies, ferns, and above them the Dents Blanches still under snow. Emma in paradise, as the post sums it up.
Towards Barme
From one pasture to the next
At the alp, the Swiss flag flies facing the valley. White anemones grow at the edge of the drop, a last snowfield melts in the stream bed.
Goats greet the walkers on the pasture, then the great waterfall plunges down the rock face. 1,200 metres and 15 kilometres: pure happiness.
