Lac de Louvie in a green summer basin below the Grand Combin, on the high traverse above Bagnes.
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Sentier des Chamois: La Chaux to Fionnay

A committing high traverse from Verbier's Mont-Fort side across the Col Termin to the Louvie hut, then all the way down into Val de Bagnes at Fionnay.

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Sentier des Chamois: La Chaux to Fionnay

One of Valais’s best chamois-country traverses: the trail is narrow, exposed in places, and passes right below the Bec des Rosses. The Louvie hut at the little lake makes a great break before the long knee-buster down to Fionnay. Be sure of the weather up on the col.

Cover photo: Gleb Zajarski, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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