Somehow, someway, every time I set out to summit Le Grammont from Valais I never quite end up on the top. I still managed a quite nice day out in the Swiss moutains, taking in the Pas de Lovenex starting from St Gingolph and ending up back down on the floor of Valais in Les Evouttes. The amount of sustained vertical possible in the Swiss Canton of Valais is astounding.
The climb up from the CH/FR border town of St Gingolph had some nice bits of singletrack mixed with some perilous road walking
Chalet above St Gingolph. Guess which side of the border this is one. Hint: note impeccable wood stacking.
This stream is the actual CH/FR border above St Gingolph
On the climb up to Pas de Lovenex through cow pasture
Looking back down towards the CH/FR border
Near Lac de Lovenex
Col de la Croix from Pas de Lovenex, Lovenex basin down to the right
Alpage above Lac du Taney
Lac du Taney
Now those are cowbells!
The descent from Lac du Taney towards Les Evouttes featured some of the nicest singletrack I have run on in Switzerland
On the descent from Lac du Taney towards Les Evouttes
Garmin says: 5720 ft of vertical in 14.3 miles (click to enlarge). The orange track is from a previous effort up Cornettes de Bise.
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