Outre-Lêve - Col de la Fricolla
Champorcher
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Difficulties:E - Excursionist
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Best period:
July - September
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Departure:Outre-Lêve (1200 m)
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Arrival:Col de la Fricolla (2545 m)
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Difference in level:1349 m
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length:7.291 m
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Ascent:4h10
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Trail sign:AV2 - 4
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GPS tracks:
Description of the route
From the village of Mellier, a hamlet in the municipality of Champorcher, descend and cross the bridge over the Ayasse and leave the car in a car park just before the village of Outre-Lêve. Go up the mule track signposted 4 until you get to the chapel of Cret (1297 m) and then go into the Vallone della Legna. Go past Alpe Porte and continue to a crossroad, at Ourty. Follow the left-hand branch which continues almost on level ground, crosses the stream and then starts to climb into a wood changing altitude by around 300 metres. Finally, you come to a plateau where you find the chapel of Saint Anthony and the pasture of Case Vecchie. From here, cross another plateau and then you come first to the cabins of Chavanne and then the pasture of Chenessy. Now continue along the path that goes up to the left, cross a brook and in the middle of a vast stone terrain you come to Col Fricolla, on the border of the municipality of Pontboset.
