Suspension bridge Grande Combe

Location

St Martin on the left bank of the Rhone in Val d’Hérens

Descriptif 

easy hike with a spectacular passage of a suspension bridge and visit the hamlet of Ossona

Total length

about 9 km

Walking time

approx. 3 hours

Elevation + et –

+/-650 meters

National hiking map 1:50’000

Montana 273

Best period

April to November

Difficulty

T2+

Itinerary

From the village of St Martin, before the church and at the height of the postal station of the center and the dairy, take the direction of the Luette. Follow a path downhill that is cut by a road after a few hundred meters. Follow this road downhill to the junction and take the direction Ossona. After a hundred meters, take the path that goes down towards the bottom of the valley (Direction West). This place there is 2 km of downhill until the junction of the path for Ossona and the footbridge of the Grande Combe. From Ossona, go back to Suen, St Martin, to your starting point.