6/30 Stage 3: Cabane d’Orny – Issert – La Fouly
6/30 While most parties doing the Haute Route take the trail from the Cabane d’Orny to Champex and then the bus to Bourg St. Pierre, thereby saving a day and a half, we decided to walk the full distance by first, hiking down to the village of Issert and then traveling up the Valle Ferret to La Fouly, thence over the mountains and down into Bourg St. Pierre. We set off from the hut at 7:20a and began the descent of the Combe d’Orny. After a short time we passed the turnoff to La Breya (the top station of the tram down to Champex), then continuing on we descended steeply down into the Valle Ferret past the junction of the trail to Champex and finally arrived, a little footsore, at the Isset (1065m – 3494ft) It had been a total descent of nearly 5800ft so we had several well deserved beers at a little roadside pub before catching the bus up the valley to La Fouly where we settled in for a good night’s rest.
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- Setting off below the Cabane d’Orny
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- Nearing the last of the snow field on the descent to Issert
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- Between Cabne d’Orny and the village of Issert on the way to La Fouly
