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This route is ideal for introducing you to ski touring!
Starting from the Combe de l’A, follow this easy blue level loop mostly through forest.
Itinerary
Best period to go there
Prestations
Author\s note
Enjoy the Chapelet restaurant to have a meal after this first experience!
Directions
First go back 100 meters with your skis on your back to reach the starting road of the Combe de l’A. Put on your skis there and calmly start your hike on the forest road with a slight ascent.
Then turn right heading west, where this blue route meets the black one coming from Dranse. The slope is a bit steeper on this pedestrian path that allows you to reach the ski slopes and pass underneath the chairlift.
Next, remove your climbing skins to finish by descending on the ski slope that will take you back to the chairlift start and the Chapelet restaurant.
Getting there
Exit the highway at Martigny.
Follow the direction Grand-Saint-Bernard to Liddes.
Turn right after the tourist office.
Reach Dranse then go up to the start of the Vichères-Liddes chairlift.
Free parking at the start of the ski lifts
Take the train to Orsières then the bus to Vichères (only in winter)
Check the timetables on www.cff.ch