7/1 Stage 5a: Refuge du Bonhomme – Col des Fours – Refuge Des Mottets – Col de la Seigne – Rifugio Elisabetta
7/1 Got an early start and left the Refuge du Bonhomme at 7:10a. We hiked uphill behind the hut to the Col des Fours (2665m – 8743ft) (7:35a). We passed through the Col and descended on steep slopes of shale and some snow patches towards the basin of Plan des Fours. After losing about 250m (820ft) of height we turned left away from a big shelf, crossed a stream that dropped through a gully, and the descended steeply alongside and then across the Tufs stream and over pasture to the alp buildings of Les Tufs (1993m – 6539ft) (8:45a). Here we picked up and followed a farm road to some farm buildings at the bottom of the valley at La Ville des Glaciers (1789m – 5869ft) (9:15a). Shortly afterward we crossed the Torrent les Glaciers and started a gentle rise which took us on to a converted dairy farm, Refuge des Mottets (1870m – 6135ft) (9:45a).
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- Starting out from the Refuge de la Croix Bonhomme
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- Al below the Col des Fours
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- Slope below the Col de Fours
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- Stream coming down from the shelf below the Col de Fours
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- Al and friend near Les Tufs
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- Refuge des Mottets
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