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From 06/07 to 01/09/2024.
Adult: 2 €
Child: 2 €.
Free entry for children < 6 years.
Approximate pdf route Désert de Platé - Chalets de Sales - Lignon
Approximate GPX route Désert de Platé - Chalets de Sales - Lignon
The Désert de Platé, a geological curiosity at an altitude of 2,500 m! Use the destination's mobility network to hike for longer, without having to make the round trip.
Gondola departure from Samoëns - Grand Massif Express (fee payable) Take the Chariande Express chairlift (fee payable) Start on foot from the Tête des Saïx summit. Follow signs for Col de Vernant, then Col des Grands Vans. Continue towards Lanches Fleuries, then Col Pelouse to the Col de Platé, from where you can admire the desert of Platé de Platé, a vast limestone plateau covered with countless lapiaz. Descend towards Pierre Carré. Then on to the Refuge de Sales. Descend towards Le Lignon. On the way down, you can admire numerous waterfalls, notably those of La Sauffaz and La Pleureuse. Arrival at Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval - Lignon Return by shuttle bus.
265 km of pistes and 5 interlinked resorts (Flaine, Les Carroz, Morillon, Samoëns, Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval)). For many years they were used as a training ground by Antoine Deneriaz, the gold medal winner in the downhill event at the 2006 Winter O...
Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval/Passy Nature Reserve, the biggest nature reserve in Haute-Savoie, covers a vast region and boasts two impressive glacier cirques (Fer à Cheval and Les Fonts), both bursting with spectacular waterfalls.
Refuge located in a preserved valley in the heart of the Sixt-Fer-à-Cheval nature reserve. Family hike appreciated for its numerous waterfalls amidst ibex, chamois and marmots.
