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A varied hike alternating between forest and mountain pastures with beautiful views over the valley. There are no technical passages, but the distance is great!
About : Journey to the end of the mountain pasture: Sentier des Jasses, l’Alpette, l’Enversin
The mountain mascot the marmot will welcome you with his shrill cries.
It was hunted and poached. It was taken during its winter sleep, its fat, flesh and fur were sought after. Marmot fat was used against rheumatism. Many legends have been told about the alpine animals, some say that chamois have been seen hanging from the cliffs by their horns, or that marmots are dragged on their backs by their fellow marmots in order to bring in the hay collected between their legs in the burrows (Gabrielle Sentis).
On this route you will find :
- The old mines: "No other country contains such a complete mineralogy as the Oisans" (Abbé Bayle).
In 1900 the concession of the copper mines of La Fare employed 16 workers. Production gave 20,000 tonnes of raw ore in 1904 and stopped in 1908. This concession included a place called Saint Florentin, near the Fare waterfall. In the absence of gold, beautiful rock crystals were found. Brown ones were found in Vaujany in the 18th century and other colours elsewhere. The deposits have been over-exploited. Some crystal makers sometimes find beautiful specimens perched in perilous places, but they are rare, the crystals having been very precise.
- Alpine flowers : There was a time when everyone looked after themselves as best they could. Often with plants. We didn't go to the hospital to be treated, and even if we did, we didn't come back.
It took time to send for the doctor, so it was better to act alone, thanks to the knowledge of plants. In the mountain pastures, arnica is found, with all the virtues of healing paralysis and bruises. Lichens were also used against whooping cough, anemone was a nervous sedative, and gentian, the queen of the mountain pastures, was used as a healing lotion. Linden and sage were used as plasters to treat sprains.
If the use of wild plants is fashionable, you should know that at one time they were above all part of a way of life. We used to eat whatever Mother Nature offered: sorrel and wild spinach, or the carline (commonly known as thistle), the bottom of which is a delicious artichoke heart, a plant that is protected today.
Welcome: Advice :
- Check the weather conditions before you leave.
- In case of emergency call 112.
- Adapt your clothing to the activity: bring good walking shoes, a windbreaker and a cap ....
- Bring snacks and water.
Guidebook with maps/step-by-step
From the Vaujany Tourist Office, go down the road and at the bend in the road take the path indicating La Villette. You arrive at a bend in the road. Continue on the road and you will enter the hamlet of La Villette. At the four banal you take the road of the mill on the right, until the end, and continue on the track until the intersection, you turn on the right in direction of the Alpette, the path of the Jasses starts some meters after on your left, it is indicated the Alpette. You follow it, always in the direction of the Alpette. You arrive at the reservoir of the snow factory, and it is on your right, on the track, you take the grass track which goes up and you arrive at a track, you always follow it while going up until the Alpette, and the arrival station of the cable car. Once at the Alpette, take the track that goes down between the cable car arrival and the gondola arrival. The yellow signs indicate the Enversin d'Oz, which you follow all the way. You go down to the Plan du Cerf. There you turn right again towards the Enversin d'Oz, and continue your descent through the forest until you reach the road opposite the hamlet of Enversin. Once you reach the road, turn right onto the road until you reach the fork in the road. Turn right at the fork. You follow the information Les Combes. You evolve in the forest, until the bridge that you cross, you are at the mill. A path goes up to Vaujany. Once on the road, you reach the Tourist Office by going up the road on the right.
En bref
5 h 00
J+ : 990 m
13.4 km
Level bue - Medium
Map and GPX marking
Journey to the end of the mountain pasture: Sentier des Jasses, l’Alpette, l’Enversin
Vaujany
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- Duration of the session: 300 minutes
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- Unguided individual tours available permanently
- Average duration of the individual tour: 300 minutes
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From 01/06 to 31/10.
Subject to favorable weather.
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Free access.
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