Ferrata du Mont

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Sixt Fer à Cheval - Grand Massif
Rhône Alpes  -   France

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Characteristics: 
Open all year long, watch for the weather forecast... A 15 m. footbridge, vertigo, a 8 m ladder, possible loophole Photo Gérard Nuvolini  - Cliquez pour agrandir

ViaFerrata.Org tips
Be careful if you use the loophole. Try to avoid making stones falling... your friends are just below...

Take at least one litter of water during the summer...
On the way down, go to the Waterfall du Rouget,
See picture from Gérard Nuvoloni... 

Difficulty:
D

Quotation:
PD = kids and beginners;    D, Difficult = for beginner with some experience;  D+, Difficult Plus  =  for good climbers;   TD = very difficult for very good climbers

Information:
Morillon's Tourism Office: Tel:(33) 4 50 90 15 76
Sixt fer à cheval's Tourim Office: Tel: (33) 4.50.34.49.36

Guide office:
Compagnie des guides du Haut Giffre Samoëns: (33) 4.50.34.43.12

Length:
Dénivellation: 150 m.
Cable length: 800 m.
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When:
All year long

Timing:
Access: 20 mn  
Ferrata:  2h30 - 3h30
Way back: 20 mn

By car:
Autoroute A40 Genève/Chamonix, Exit Cluses Sardagne – To Samoëns and  5kms after Samoëns to Sixt Fer à Cheval – Parking des Tines (in front of the Gorges des Tines) 773 m.

By Train:
Cluses station and contact the S.N.C.F. for more information 


How to access the via
From the Tines's parking, at the entrance of Sixt Fer à Cheval, cross the road and follow the small path to the beginning of the ferrata 20mn (you will see a board with indications)

Via Ferrata:
The ferrata starts with an easy and ascending path. Near a cave, you arrive on a grassy plateform the Vire de l'Ours 

Go up on your left, then vertically for ten meters to le passage de la barme aux Corbes, you arrive on second grassy plateform.

Go up the cliff on your right. At the top of this cliff you have to option to take a loophole. Be Careful: your friends are just below you, and a rolling stone could be very hazardous for them...

If you decide to continue, take on your right... you will have some vertigo sensations... You will reach soon a Footbridge (15m.) Then, it becomes very physical... until a 8 m. ladder.

Then you will go down and go back again in the  traversée de l’Ally, and you will reach the top of the Mont.

On the way back, follow the signs. 20 minutes

Where to sleep?
- Le gîte du Tenneverge (33) 4.50.34.91.58
- Bed and Breakfast 
(33)  4.50.34.10.55
- Gîte Auberge de Salvany 
(33) 4.50.34.47.64

              
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