St. Marcel Valley with Hunting Reserve Turati

Fénis Valley Pieiller Vallon: from Fénis-Le Perron (582m) Hamlet, Champlan, Crou de Ban (926m), Le Pieiller de Sermoz (1.075m), Maison Longue (1.112m), Le Plany (1.174m), Le Pieiller (1.230m) little Villages, alternative on hairpin road (about 1.200m) to Le Coteau (1.234m) Village, with municipal road or path from valley floor; from this:

1) - in Northeast Mount Saint Julien (1.384m), Saint Grat Sanctuary and, through short descent, Saint Julien Hermitage, with path.

2) - From Le Pieiller road continuation in Southeast to La Morgnettaz (1.245m), Champremier (1.833m) Villages and connection with Les Druges Comba, at the entrance of Saint Marcel Vallon;

3) - or the same connection but with path, starting from The Morgnettaz, passes through the small Villages of Porteron (1.368m; sledge run Combasse), Malplanet (1.495m), Les Druges Low and High (1.567m).

 

Saint Marcel Valley Mounts Corquet-Roux Vallon: from Upper Les Druges (1.600/57m) in South Fontaine Froide (1.810m), Bren (1.961m), Praz Premier (2.011m) Alpages. From this

1) - in Southeast descent to Robioz or Robbio in Fénis alloon, with paths;

2) - in Southwest to Crotey Pass (2.486m) to Saint Marcel Vallon, with paths.

3) - In West Corquet old Alp (2.124m); from alp

4) - in South Mount Corquet (2.527m), easily with path.

5) - And yet true West to Mount Roux (2.277m) with its rich Chuc-Servette Mines of iron and copper, through uncertain path often covered with rhododendrons. Crotey small Vallon: from Les Druges towards Pouria Pasture (1.586m), Vargney Alp, Chuc-Servette Old Mines (1.810m), Etéley Alp (1.741m), through dirt road; fork 1.836 meters, near Praborna manganese mine (1.891m) and after Etéley (1.750m) in East to Lavanché Alp (2.071m) and in Northeast to Crotey Pass (2.486m); from this in North Mount Corquet, through paths. In Southwest Hunters Col de Belfrond (2.598m), on easy ridge. Plan Rué mini Vallon: from Plan Rué Alp (2.103m) on Saint Marcel farms dirt road in East to Belfrond Pass, with traces on grassy slope, earthly couloirs and easy rock bands, and from this in South to Plan Rué Point (2.883m), through traces and easy small rocks on North-northeast Crest.

Saint Marcel Valley Terre Bleue Vallon: from Etéley, Mulac-Saint Louis Hunting House (1.937m) towards Plan Rué Pastures (2.100m, 2.129m), two Plan d'Emonin Alps (2.205m), Layet Alp (2.233m) and Lake to Grande Chaux Hunting House and old Alp (2.370m; ruines), through farms dirt road, in East-southeast to Terre Bleue Pass (2.827m) and from this:

1) - in Northeast Grand Avert (2.991m), without path, small traces and easy rocks on Southwest Crest (I°+, one passage of II°-, exposed to Southeast; snowy rope required);

2) - in South traverse to Little Avert (2.947m), through easy Northern Crest.

 

Avert-Lavodilec Vallons: from alternative 2.320 meters before Grande Chaux Hunting House in Southeast towards Petite Chaux Pasture (2.419m) in East, with dirt road, and through moraine:

1) - Grand Avert Pass (2.828m), between Grande Crête also Devil's Crest and Grand Avert; from this to Grand Avert, through easy (I°) Northern Crest, with snow rope required;

2) - to Southeast in long crossing Lavòdilèc Hill (2.863m), with path.

 

Fenêtre Vallon: from Grande Chaux in Southwest alternative 2.601 meters and

1) - in East-southeast Lavodilec Hill, with path; from this in North to Little Avert (2.947m), through debris on Southwest Slope and easy rock band in final part;

2) - in West-northwest Saint Marcel also Corona's Hill (2.913m; precious stone "Ollare" blue), with path, in South easy traverse to Laval Points (3.091m, 3.099m), Gianni Vert (3.150m) Points, with traces.

 

Grand Vallon: from Grande Chaux or from fork 2.601 meters in West to Vallonet Pass (3.062m), Mount Vallonet (3.101m), with small path-traces.

 

Petit Vallon: from Grande Chaux to West-northwest Grande Chaux Alp (2.391m), Leppe Pass (3.110m), with path, small path and traces. From this

1)- in North Ilario Antonio Garzotto Point (3.274m), through debris and easy rocks on South Slope; in South Leppe Point, easy Northeast Crest. Eastern Arpisson Vallon: from fork 1.836 meters on farms dirt road to Mulac (1.937m) in Northwest long traverse to Choulet Alp (1.821m), small saddle with Cross 1.939 meters towards the entrance into vallon, Salé (2.209m) Alp, with paths, Bonplan Alp (2.374m) to Salé or Grande Roise also Brissogne Pass (3.008m), with rare traces, moraine, blocks and small earthy gullies in terminal part, with snow rope required. From this

 

1) - in North easily to Becca of Salé;

2) - in South Little Roise Northern Antesummit (3.270m), Summit (3.273/4m), with traces, debris, blocks and small rocks in final part (one passage of II°-/II° on Carving said "Pas du Baton", between the both; rope required), at the beginning of Grande Roise Range.

This enough long valley opens behind the Municipality of Saint Marcel (630m), sited with its beautiful Castle of 1600, between the Municipalities of Fénis to the East and Grand Brissogne. The same lies on the Southern side of the Central Valley of Baltea and at the slopes of Mounts Saint Julien, La Torrasse, Corquet and Roux, who constitute the last bastion of the same that had originated at the foot of the pyramid of Punta del Tessonet. Built by Giacomo of Challant beween the Villages of Surpian (568m) and Paquier, after the division of property following the death of the Ibleto il Giovane owner also of the Castle Ussel above the Municipality of Pontey, experienced many vicissitudes until Baron Paolo Emanuele of Châtillon who made the sale to the Barons Bianco of San Secondo (Piedmont). The latter, in order to avoid having to make the restoration of the same, sold it for little money to "Ranger Company of Mines" which, however, overlooked it completely letting go almost completely in ruins. He was also known as the "Castle of the Widows", as well as being a summer resort, after the construction of an adjacent room was the residence and refuge of the widows of the Counts of Challant both the aristocratic branch of the Val d'Ayas that for the noble branch of Aymavilles. Also worth visiting is the Parish Church, while the overlying Plout Sanctuary (968m; Patronal Festival September 14th, while in Saint Marcel is celebrated January 16th) has become a tradition almost millennia by tracing the construction of a primeval niche with a tiny statue of the Madonna in 1200 and is dedicated to "Notre Dame des Hermites". As for the part mining and naturalistic recommend a trip-excursion to visit the Coppermines of Servette, yet in sight with large wooden cable cars and the houses of the miners with substantial retaining walls built of dry stone, the Manganesemines Praborna (Prato della Buca) and of iron into the Reserve Turati or Grand Avert, formerly Nature Reserve and Hunting of Gressoney Baron Beck Peck(c)oz. In addition there are wonders of Flora and Fauna, rich of the King Steinbock, of chamoises, marmots and every other creature on the Mount, dominated by the royal flight of the eagle, which often sees flying, silhouetted high in the sky of the Grande Rouèze or Roise Range (Great Glacier, that there is hardly any at all, for which reason it is deduced that the name must be very old, (3.357m) jumping over it in the direction of His Majesty the Monte Emilius (3.559m). There should be noted that the same in 1800 had other dimensions, including also the parallels Walloons Les Laures and Arpisson, amongst the Monte Emilius, Becca di Seneva and Becca di Nona, up to the Carrel Hill (2.916m)), while in the South spanned the watershed with the Valley Grauson-Tessonet (Cogne) coming up on the glacial slopes of Punta Tersiva (3.515m). With regard to the waters, to remember to highlight how the same feature of the particular features: just above the floor of Emonin Dessous and Dessus (2.129m, 2.219m; Lower and Higher), to about the middle of the valley, with two brooks flowing with coloration completely different. One of a deep green above carbonates of copper, the other yellow-ocher on iron oxides. This is also the last color that trickle down from Sevette crossing the private dirt road, while the green copper reappears in the locality called Eve-Verda also Acqua Verde (1.331m, 1.305m; Green Water), where the ore underwent a first wash, hence the name before the transportation definitive downstream where it was processed and finished in the "Fabbica" or Factory at the great iron bridge of 60 meters above Baltea and within which runs the railroad, with calcium carbide production. The oven itself remained open until the end Sixties when it was closed simultaneously to the coppermines, as judged by the owners no longer profitable. The stone "Ollare": just below the Colle di Saint Marcel or Coronas Hill (2.913m), on the diagonal path that leads to this and also above the same, there is a much considerable quantity of this; of color blue mat is very malleable and then used to make traditional, refined and in great demand sculptures of Aosta Valley, also "all round". One last curiosity: in the Manganesemine of Praborna or Praz-Bor(g)na exist the mineral of the Violano, very rare and it seems that is the only place in Europe where there.  Brevi tratti Istorici & qualche Curiosità