Bruil - Col Fenêtre de Torrent
Rhêmes-Notre-Dame
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Difficulties:E - Excursionist
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Best period:
July - September
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Departure:Bruil (1719 m)
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Arrival:Col Fenêtre de Torrent (2854 m)
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Difference in level:1.135 m
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length:4.070 m
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Ascent:3h25
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Trail sign:15 - AV2
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GPS tracks:
Description of the route
From the centre of the village of Rhêmes-Notre-Dame you follow the tarmac road going down the valley for about two hundred metres until you come to La Veforche; near the car park (on your left) you take the footpath that climbs up between the meadows. You cross the bridge over the mountain torrent and continue on a zig-zag path climbing up the grassy slopes dominated by a high rock face and then cross a small coniferous wood. When you reach the grassy ridge, the trail draws a long diagonal line climbing gently as far as the Torrent mountain pastures. From here you bear left going across a large alluvial canyon which you then walk alongside over sparse pastureland as far as the foot of a rock face. Then going right you climb upwards round several bends up the steep slope with debris and pastures which leads to Col Fenêtre.
