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Distance 7.5km, 2 hours A walk down through the peaceful forest between Veysonnaz and Salins, then along the Bisse de Salins through meadows and woodland before an uphill finish through the old part of Veysonnaz. 1. Turn left at the main door of the apartment building (Mont Rouge), and follow the road for a few hundred metres through the resort to the road junction just past the Greppon Blanc restaurant. Turn sharp left here up the hill, following the signs for the tennis courts - just after passing the play park on the right the road crosses the Bisse de Vex. Turn left onto the path along the Bisse de Vex and follow this through woodland to the ski lift station. Continue past the tourist office and cross the road to continue along the bisse. 2. After crossing the road follow the bisse for about 500 metres to a small bridge over the bisse and a signpost. Turn left here (don't cross the bridge) downhill on a small path through the forest - the path is signposted "Salins - village". The path winds down through the forest then joins a larger track. Continue along the track, which leads after about 500 metres to a junction with a grassy track - keep following the track as it bends sharply left at this junction. The next section of track passes through forest that has been thinned in the last few years so there a some old branches on the track in places and care is required. The track continues to wind down through the forest, and then becomes a small path which winds down through a small lush valley to a road. 3. Turn right along the road and follow it downhill round a left hairpin bend. About 100 metres after the hairpin, turn right onto a path (signpost for "Salins - village") that leads downhill for about 200 metres to the Bisse de Salins. Turn left and follow the path along the bisse across the hillside to reach the road again at another hairpin bend. Cross the road and continue along the bisse path. About a kilometre after crossing the road, and just after a footbridge, leave the bisse and turn left up a farm track. 4. Follow the track quite steeply uphill. Just after the track becomes tarmac, turn left onto a track that leads up to the main road to Veysonnaz at a right hairpin bend (if you miss this left turn the tarmac track soons leads to the road anyway - in this case turn left on the road and follow it uphill to the hairpin). Turn left at the bend onto Route de Boui, then immediately right onto Chemin de Coire - this leads steeply uphill to Veysonnaz village. At the next junction (opposite the fire station), turn left along the road, the right onto Chemin des Jardins (follow signpost for "Veysonnaz") which leads up to the village centre. Stop for a cold drink or an ice-cream, then follow one of the roads uphill to the resort centre and back to Mont Rouge in about 10 minutes. Forêt du Magrappe and the Bisse de Vex - distance 4.5km, 1 hour Clèbes and the Bisse de Salins - distance 5km, 1.5 hours Verrey and the Bisse de Vex - distance 6km, 1.5 hours Forêt de Salins and the Bisse de Salins - distance 7.5km, 2 hours The Bisse de Vex, Forêt Noire, and the Bisse de Salins - distance 12km, 2.5 to 3 hours Thyon, the Piste de l'Ours, and Forêt du Magrappe - distance 11km, 3 to 3.5 hours |