On foot · Trient, Valais · August 2023
A loop from Trient
A loop hike from Trient, above the valley and its glacier, towards the Col de Balme, with Mont Blanc and the Émosson dam playing hide-and-seek with the clouds.
- Date
- August 2023
The route · indicative
The climb
Above Trient
Setting off between hay bales at the bottom of the valley, greeted by a Hérens cow. The path climbs through larches clinging to the slope, below great rock walls.
Higher up, the clouds part now and then over the Émosson dam on the other side of the valley. Emmanuelle stops facing the Trient glacier, reaching down at the far end.
Towards the Col de Balme
Chamois and fireweed
The Trient valley spreads out below the path, with the glacier tongue at its end. A chamois crosses the grassy slope, arnica grows among the stones.
Pink fireweed blooms on the pasture, the Émosson dam vanishes into the mist, and the glacier hides beneath the clouds for the end of the loop.
