Hiking
PIERREDAR : CHALLENGES OF A mountaIN hut
In addition to finding yourself in an exceptional alpine setting, you will learn how a mountain hut must adapt quickly to climate challenges (safety of access trails, water management) and sustainability (energy, transport, catering and waste management).. Once arrived at Pierredar, you will be served an excellent meal by our friendly, volunteering hut keepers who take turns every week! Who knows, you might want to become one of them?
Duration: 1 day
Difficulty: medium to difficult (T3, D+1000m)
Option : Night+1/2p at the refuge: CHF 55.-
MOVING PASTURES & AVALANCHES: LIFE IN THE ORMONTS, THEN AND NOW
The ancestral way of life in the Ormonts, based on transhumance, was shaped by the scarce resources available and by natural hazards, especially avalanches. The location of the hamlets below the Chaussy range, as well as the way the chalets were built and protected, bear witness to the ingenuity of the people of this valley over the centuries. By the end of this hike, you will never look at the landscape and chalets of the Ormonts the same way again.
Duration: 1/2 or 1 day
Difficulty: easy (T2 max, max elevation gain 700m)
a TRÉCHADèZE WITH ramuz and naPOLéON
This hike takes you to the site of the fratricidal battle fought in 1798 by the Franco-Lémanic troops of Bonaparte, and the Ormonans who remained loyal to the Bernese. You will visit, among other things, the bucolic site of Tréchadèze, witness to these tragic events, and hear the story that Ramuz did in his "War in the High Country". Then the hike will continue towards the Col de la Croix before returning to Les Diablerets.
Duration: 1 day
Difficulty: medium (T3, max elevation 500m)
MOUNTAIN CHALETS, ARCHITECTURAL GEMS
The architecture of multicentennial chalets reveals the ingenuity of ourancestors who built them. This walk between farms, family houses and mountain chalets will offer you, beyond an immersion in the mountain built heritage, to apprehend the life of yesteryear in the region of Les Diablerets, with its constraints but also its simple pleasures. . In collaboration with Mary-Claude Busset, historian.
Duration: 1/2 day
Difficulty: easy (T2 max)