The trip
LEVEL ***
Height difference : +/- 450m to 1350m
Walking time : 4h to 6h30 per day
Type of walk : mountain hike on marked trails including gravel paths. Some variants are proposed with steeper passages requiring a sure footing.
You have to be in a general good fitness level. Please practice a cardio sport as us hiking, running, cycling, from 3 to 4 hours a week.
Your physical preparation will enable you to enjoy your trek to the maximum.
Please find the description of the levels by clicking here: levels of difficulty
ROAD BOOK
One month prior to departure, we will send you your travel documents. We offer two roadbook versions:
The "paper" version we send by post:
- 2 IGN TOP 25 maps with the route
- 1 road-book with all the necessary information for the hike
- 1 map holder
- The list of accommodation
The "digital" version is an application to download on your smartphone, accessible to each of the participants of the file. The information for downloading and using it is sent by e-mail.
LUGGAGE TRANSPORT
This hike straddles between the Maurienne Valley and the Tarentaise Valley. It involves long distances to transport your luggage. We offer you three option in order to limit cost and environmental impact:
Without luggage transport: all your luggage is carried by you.
With luggage transport: your luggage is transported to your accommodation each day by a logistics vehicle.
With luggage transport: your luggage is transported to your accommodation by a logistics vehicle, except on days 3 and 4.
You luggage is only transported in the Maurienne Valley. You get back your 10kg luggage on day 5.
ACCOMMODATION
COMFORT :
2 nights in a refuge in a room for 4 people,
2 nights in a hotel in a double room,
1 night in a refuge in a double room.
All accommodation is equipped with hot showers. However, due to increasingly recurrent periods of drought, access to showers is not guaranteed.
The accommodations that welcome you on the first and last days of this tour offer the comfort of very recent double rooms, which allow more privacy than in a dormitory, with shared sanitary facilities.
These are mountain refuges and not altitude hotels. One is a former mountain pasture chalet and the other is a refuge of the Vanoise Park. They compensate for a certain rusticity with an authentic setting and a warm welcome!
Special on Sundays evenings at Bellecombe refuge
Massage possible on Sundays evenings at Bellecombe refuge, please book with Véronique at 07 86 63 87 97 or contact@soifdebienetre.fr (a minimum of registrants is required).
THE MEALS
Breakfasts and dinners are provided in each accommodation.
Picnics are not included and can be ordered the day before in each accommodation.
You can buy food in the shops in Pralognan on days 3 and 4.
Please inform us about your food allergies and special diets at the time of booking.
We do our best to accommodate special diets (gluten-free, vegetarian, etc.). However, we encourage you to bring some additional products for your own picnics.
6 days
Self-guided
With baggage transport
Comfort (room)
Level *** 
From 585 €
