Our Lady Immaculate of the Miserin oversees the Pastures of Heaven /1

This valley, very important for the profile of cultural history, had been "snubbed" from the point of view of tourism until about forty years ago, being known and preferred destination almost exclusively by vacationers or Sunday's people of Turin City. The new facilities aimed at the ski have completely relaunched and now does not bear comparison with the most famous valleys of the whole Aosta Valley. Although it does not have big mountains or the catchy name like many of the other, "being content" of Mont Glacier (3186m), Mont Delà (3139m) or simply of the opposite Rosa dei Banchi (3164m) on the border with Piedmont Region. Today in Champorcher Valley and surroundings, oasis of peace in unspoiled nature and understanding of the foothills of the more Southern sector in Regional Park of Mount Avic, tourists come not only from all over Italy, but all over Europe. "WERY" WILD WINDS from Colle della Rosa towards Rosa dei Banchi, by livioz 2005 & Roby4061 Indeed it is perhaps the proximity to Barbustel Refuge, not many years now and built in Champdepraz Valley, adjacent to the North with Champorcher Valley but easily accessible and in relatively short time, which greatly increased the "traffic", at least for the summer. Maybe too much because, sometimes, "streams" of people climb to Colle del Lago to the limit with the Park. Even too much. In winter or in midseason instead everything changes and only a few true fan reaches the Dondena candid, sometimes windswept or otherwise buried in deep snow, as in a postcard d'Antan. Across the Torrent Ayasse instead you hear voices, sometimes almost the crowds, on the slopes of Larìs. But it is also the place of the great silences, when the arrival of the cold and the first blow of Aeolus almost all disappear; also from Lake Miserin and its Sanctuary that truly becomes a center of spiritual concentration, with the waters of the Lake trespide and just feel the wind in the Fall that now with its lights and shadows lengthened declines towards Winter. Try to get the Rosa dei Banchi to October and you'll understand. You will see the Winds Northeast push the clouds to the Southwest towards the Soana Valley, making them fly like kites high over Colle della Rosa (2957m), located between Rosa dei Banchi (to the East) Punta dell'Asgelas (in West; 3021m), before the Balma Pass. Do not delay because the darkness will come soon and when you pass again at Miserin waters a sense of dark tremor invade you bringing you back centuries. Little Great Highest Madonna of "Granpa" or Great Paradise, by Huberschwiller 2006 The Sanctuary will stand in front of you cool and quiet and its doors and wooden benches assume a medieval appearance. Far away in time. Waiting to see appear a Friar from the window sash that, looking at you with his head down and with only the chin and mouth coming out of his white cap, invites you with a wave of the hand open to enter. A moment to heat up the fireplace eating something hot. You will not see anyone, and the darkness will fall even further but the road to Dondena is wide and safe. Taken from the rush and despair want to shorten the route and get you on the right fording the Torrent Miserin to fall directly on the path of retreat, passing below the Monte Dondena. Do not do this because it goes well with the light of day; instead follow the wide dirt road that the last light at the horizon make enough suggestive and quietly, even with narrowed eyes, reach Refuge Dondena, "hidden" under a rocky promontory. Here you will open, if it is not already too far from the Autumn and Winter too close to. In any case do not worry, you are very close to Dondena. The lights of a bright morning just above Château-Champorcher Commune and welcome you at la Cort very small Village. where you can see the domination of "Madonna of the Snow". Royal Route by King "Toio" is "virgin" and his immaculate snow. Put on snowshoes and go. You will not find anyone until Dondena, there around the corner. Valley stretches Westward to Champorcher's Fenêtre bordering Cogne Valley, by Maria Grazia schiapparelli 2004