Page Type Page Type: Trip Report
Location Lat/Lon: 45.52697°N / 7.20088°E
Date Date Climbed/Hiked: Apr 23, 2017
Activities Activities: Hiking, Mountaineering, Trad Climbing, Sport Climbing, Toprope, Bouldering, Ice Climbing, Aid Climbing, Big Wall, Mixed, Scrambling, Via Ferrata, Canyoneering, Skiing
Seasons Season: Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter

Savara Overview Savarenche

All pictures of this page are by Emilio Bertona, eza, Ilario Antonio Garzotto, Antonio Giani, turistoalpinista & Osw



They ended the times, to be able to go up, they saw as the Mountaineers even from the valley floor at Villeneuve towards Dégioz and Pont, discarding Introd.


Today a road asphalt along the entirety reaching Pont (1980m), where the adventure begins. But just before the same another trail reaches a new shelter dedicated to the two famous brothers Mountaineers and Climbers Federico and Renato Chabod, great Sons of Val Savarenche. But this is also, par excellence, since 1922 the Valley of P.N.G.P. (National Park Gran Paradiso) that coinvole, but not so complete like this, the nearby Valleys of Cogne, Rhêmes and Soana-Ceresole Reale, this last in Piedmont.
Throughout this great environment, where you can breathe an air of great classical mountaineering, many torrents flow from the three cardinal directions: from the "Meridione" or South at the slopes of the Grand Etret Glacier, contained between the Denti del Broglio and Punta Fourà; from the East with all the satellites of Gran Paradiso (4165m), ie, from South to North, Broglio's Jags, Becca of Monciair, Ciarforon, Tresenta and, beyond the Summit, Small Paradise, Becca of Montandayné, Herbetet and down up to the Col Lauson. Here the ridge rises to form the Grivola (3964m) before declining towards the Dora Baltea. Not before he formed the blackish daring and threatening pyramid of the Grand Nomenon. A whole series of streams slip, "wounding" the various valleys, from East to West to the Savara or, if you like, the Dora of Valsavarenche. The last tributaries come from the West: first with the Dora of the Nivolé, which collects the waters of a series of beautiful lakes, small lakes and ponds scattered along or just above its majestic plateau (the longest in Europe); then also here with identical characteristics of the opposite slope, flowing from West to East in the direction of the bottom valley from the watershed divide with the adjacent Valley of Rhêmes. A water concert, an orchestra going to sublimate itself in Savara. Along with this, all that remains is to go down to the Dora Baltea.
There, at the below Villeneuve, where an ancient and hardy stonebridge, "binds" this Southern orographic-hydrographic part with the opposite or the North.



Gran Paradiso or "Granpa" with its Glaciers, the source of Savara Torrent



Poi son terminati i tempi che, per poterlo salire, vedevano partire gli Alpinisti addirittura dal fondo valle presso Villeneuve verso Dégioz e Pont evitando Introd.


Oggi una strada asfaltata la percorre integralmente raggiungendo Pont (1980 m), ove inizia questa avventura. Ma subito prima del medesimo un altro sentiero raggiunge un nuovo rifugio dedicato ai due celebri fratelli Federico e Renato Chabod, grandi Figli della Valsavarenche. Risulta anche, per eccellenza, dal 1922 la Valle del P.N.G.P. (Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso) coinvolgente, ma non in modo completo come questa, le viciniori Valli di Cogne, Rhêmes e Soana-Ceresole Reale in Piemonte.
In tutto questo grande ambiente, dove si respira un'aria di grande alpinismo classico, scorrono molti torrenti che provengono dalle tre direzioni cardinali: da Meridione dalle pendici del Ghiacciaio del Grand Etret, contenuto tra i Denti del Broglio e la Punta Fourà; da Oriente con tutti i satelliti del Gran Paradiso (4165 m), cioé, da Sud a Nord, Denti del Broglio, Becca di Monciair, Ciarforon, Tresenta ed, oltre la Sommità, Piccolo Paradiso, Becca di Montandayné, Herbetet e giù fino al Col Lauson. Qui la cresta si rialza per formare la Grivola (3964 m) prima di declinare verso la Dora Baltea. Non prima di aver formato l'ardita, nerastra nonché minacciosa piramide del Grand Nomenon. Tutta una serie di torrenti scivolano, "ferendo" i vari valloni, da Est ad Ovest verso il Savara o, se volete, la Dora di Valsavarenche. Gli ultimi affluenti provengono tutti dall'Occidente: dapprima con la Dora del Nivolé, che raccoglie le acque di una serie di splendidi laghi e laghetti disseminati lungo od appena al di sopra del suo maestoso altipiano (il più lungo di Europa); poi, anche qui con identiche caratteristiche del versante opposto, defluendo da Occidente verso Oriente in direzione del fondovalle dallo spartiacque divisorio con l'attigua Valle di Rhêmes. Un concerto d'acque, un orchestra che và a sublimare sé stessa nella Savara. Con questa, non rimane, ora, che discendere verso la più ch'impetuosa Dora Baltea.
Là presso la sottostante Villeneuve, dove antico ponte in pietra ardito, "lega" questa parte orografica-idrografica Meridionale con l'opposta o Settentrionale.



But they are end even those who saw us as young people roam around here, running and riding over him on "Granpa" or offering chocolate to Turin red fox.


Sav ... Fourquin de Bioula lateral secondary Vallon 2016
Arriving in Turin Alp on Nivolé Lower Tableland 2007
Savara ... Torrent & Cascade du Ran to Rovenaud 2016
Southern ... Mon Ami, you ve crossed many Vallons?
Savara ... Punta Bioula & snowy Torrent du Ran 2016



Ma son finiti anche quelli che ci vedevan giovani scorazzare da queste parti, correndo in groppa al Gran Paradiso o dando il cioccolato alla volpe rossa di Turin.

Getting There towards Pont Valsavarenche

By car:

  • From TORINO, MILANO, etc: Motorway A5. Exit at IVREA or Quincinetto (PIEDMONT) also Pont Saint Martin, Verrès, Châtillon, AOSTA East (Nus) and West (Aymavilles) Municipalities (AOSTA Valley).

    From IVREA Town to Aymavilles, Villeneuve Municipalities.



    Villeneuve towards Savaranche

    by Osw 2015


    From Aymavilles to Villeneuve and from this to Valsavarenche Valley or directly by Villeneuve


    From Aymavilles (646m) towards Villeneuve (656/65m) through Regional Road in South of Dora Baltea.
    From Villeneuve to Savarenche Valley, Dégioz-Valsavarenche (1541m) up to the Pont Valsavarenche (1946m). From this or neighbor to Federico & Renato Chabod, below North Buttress of Gran Paradiso and nearby Laveciaù Glacier; Vittorio Emanuele II° (Old & New), between Gran Paradiso and Montcorvé Glaciers.



    Junction near Introd Castle,

    by Osw 2015


    Albergo Savoia and Città di Chivasso Refuges at the end of Nivolé Tableland below the homonym Hill and Punta Basei, through muletracks. Renzo and Sebastiano Sberna Bivouac, through path, moraines of Montandayné Glacier and below the Western Face of The Herbetet.

    It is not necessary to take Motorway A5: you can drive on State Road n° 26, in the direction of AOSTA - IVREA - TURIN.


By plane:
  • Aeroporto Internazionale "Corrado Gex" Saint Christophe (Aosta)




    Pont Camping, by eza 2005

The Stream with its Surroundings

Dora Baltea from Villeneuve towards Aymavilles 2016
Rovenaud Watefall from Bioula towards Savara 2016
Tête du Grand Etret
Secondaries torrents & waterfalls  above Rovenaud 2016
Camp in Pont...7/2005


Nivolé's Doire from Nivolé Hill towards La Roley Cross & Pont Valsavarenche






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