Sport Itineraries: Hône

How to get there:
Pont-Saint-Martin highway exit. Turn left to Aosta. Cross the towns of Donnas and Bard to a round about. Here turn left for the Champorcher valley. 7.5 km after the town of Hône, turn right for Courtil.

Wall ascent: On foot from Courtil, follow the paved road to Plan de Flo.

The walls are clearly visible from the road once in the hamlet of Courtil. The rock is always excellent and the climbing style is adherence, with excellent shoe grips. Stainless steel fix bolting is very good and stops are maximum every 30 meters with quickdraw chains. On sunny day, you can see the Monte Rosa glaciers from the top of the routes. The purpose of these routes is to introduce climbers to long routes without particular risks. However, leading should not be underestimated.
The activity requires technical experience. Alpine guide assistance is recommended.

Descent: Stops have quickdraw chains. Climbers usually walk down the left side of the wall on a side path or abseil down if they don’t make the top. Abseiling is not recommended since difficult and could hinder other climbers on their way up.

Minimum, maximum and average route difficulty from 3b to 6b, average 5c.

Total number of routes: 21 long routes + 15 topropes in the bimboclimb sector.

Average length is 140 meters with a minimum of 12 and maximum of 150 meters.

From the village of Hône, cross the Ayasse stream and continue along the farm road until you get to the penstock. From here, take a mule track that goes up to the dilapidated houses of Serec (640 m). When you get to the village, take the stairway that leads to a wonderful viewpoint, where you can see over Hone and Arnad. When you get to Ronfiot (783 m), continue along the mule track that provides numerous picturesque short-cuts overlooking the valley below and Bard Fortress. Keep going along the mule track, cross a cliff and you soon come to Pourcil (965 m). The village has two sections: in the first you will find the chapel from 1896, whose belfry has recently been reconstructed, and a fountain from 1883; in the second, nearby, you can see a typical drinking trough dug out of a tree trunk. It is interesting to see how, in the past, man was able to create exploitable space, even places that were hostile to settlement.

This path takes its name from the geographical area along which a greenhouse (crest) develops which houses a beech forest.

Departure, from the Plan-Fiou consortium road, take a mule track that shows traces of a military past. Along the way, installation guarded by small magical insects. And further up, out of the trees you can reach the top of the Grand-Chateau to admire a breathtaking panorama on the central Aosta Valley and on the lower Champorcher valley.

From the town hall square, cross the Ayasse stream to a hairpin bend on the road on the opposite side, where a panel indicates the access to the ravines. In this stretch of the stream flowing here embedded in the gorge, there are three waterfalls (goille) called, from bottom to top, Goille de Valieta, Goille de la Teua (Teua is the equivalent to “carved rock”) et Goille dou Breh (the breh is the name, in the patois of Hône, of the cradle).