Description of the route

This route begins as you leave the village of Crétaz, a short way from Pâquier (main centre of the municipality of Valtournenche), and is part of the whole route of the Alta Via no. 1
The mule track climbs through a dense wood of larch trees and broad-leaved trees until it meets the road from the left which connects Murenche with Falinère. You go across it and climb up to the Alpe Promindot pasture (m 1850), located on a grassy panoramic plateau. Continuing uphill through the larch wood you come to the Cheneil hollow.
In the past this was the only way to get to this highly beautiful hollow; now a carriageable road has been built which almost reaches Cheneil.