Mont Digny

Description

Mont Digny is located on the mountain ridge that separates the Manda valley with the Valle della Legna in the lower Champorcher valley. It is a modest elevation, but offers a beautiful panorama of the nearby peaks of the Mont Avic park and neighbouring peaks; the view of the Monte Rosa group and the Matterhorn is magnificent as we reach the crest; the presence of chamois and fawns completes the beautiful environmental picture of the excursion. The route, almost all of it out of the forest, winds its way at first with little slope along the bottom of a beautiful valley, passing through some alpine pastures and then, becoming steeper, climbs up wide, panoramic grassy slopes; there are no technical difficulties except for the fact that great care must be taken when ascending the steep and fairly exposed final slopes of oline grass, which advise against ascending them after rainfall or in any case when they are wet. Description From the clearing, head towards the markers at the end of the path near the houses and start walking slightly uphill on the easy path flanked by the service monorail for the upper alpine pastures; you then pass almost immediately by the ruined Verney huts (1314 m), which are on your right, from where you rise up on the now-steepened path, arriving successively at a fork (1388 m) at which you leave the track that follows the monorail on the left and climb up the evident mule track to the right. After a hairpin bend, you pass by the Frete hut (1413 m) and, after passing a small chapel, continue along the slightly steep track that enters the valley, passing the Boset desot hut (1531 m). Immediately afterwards you come to a crossroads (1566 m) where you continue on the right-hand path which, without an excessive gradient, passes the Boset damon hut leaving it just below us and with a beautiful panoramic stretch halfway up the hillside reaches the Bataille alpine pasture (1694 m) just beyond which there is another crossroads at a post; Turning right, the path immediately becomes steeper and, climbing up the grassy crags above, it rejoins another monorail that you follow for a short distance. Continue along the path, which climbs a wide grassy spur with a few steep and narrow hairpin bends, then moves to the right and, after having passed a little marked ravine, moves onto the grassy ridge to the right. After having climbed this too, with difficulty, you soon reach the panoramic Croset damon hut (1938 m), from which, without reaching it, you turn sharply to the right towards the steep slopes of oline grass that descend from the side of the mountain. In this section, a faint track, also followed by animals, is to be spotted, which cuts a large part of the flank on a slight uphill slope, looking for the best point to deviate to the left and ascend with a last steep climb towards an evident collar to the left of a rocky point. Having reached the crest, where we are faced with an exceptional view of the Monte Rosa group and the Matterhorn, the route becomes simpler as we follow the comfortable and never exposed ridge that takes us to the summit with a few ups and downs. On the descent, if you want to shorten the route a little and especially on dry ground, you can possibly walk the steep slopes just to the left of the peak, taking advantage of the stepped grassy crags that soon reach the uphill track.