On foot · Valais Chablais · July 2022
Valerette, Valère and the Chalin refuge
A big loop via the Pointe de Valerette, the Dent de Valère and the Chalin refuge, facing the Dents du Midi. 19 kilometres and 1,500 metres of climbing: pushing past our limits, and simply sublime.
- Date
- July 2022
- Distance
- 19 km
- Elevation gain
- 1,500 m
- Route
- Valerette · Dent de Valère · Chalin
The route · indicative
The ridges
From Valerette to Valère
We climb between the firs, where a cow rests in the shade, then through meadows of purple gentians, with the Rhône plain below. The cross on the Pointe de Valerette rises into a perfectly blue sky.
The route then runs along grassy ridges, narrow and clean, facing the Dents du Midi that fill the whole horizon. Green valleys drop away on both sides.
Chalin
Below the rock walls
At the foot of the great rock walls, the little Chalin refuge, perched among scree and snowfields, with the Rhône plain stretching to Lake Geneva.
On the way back, a griffon vulture circles above the peaks. Asters bloom along the path, facing the Dents du Midi. Pushing past our limits, simply sublime.
