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homines dicti Walser - A nation in the heart of the Alps

Leave the motorway A5 at the exit of the Pont-Saint-Martin and turn right following the directions for the Gressoney Valley we arrive in the center of the picturesque village of Issime, where stands the beautiful church of San Giacomo Maggiore, a monument of great historical and artistic interest, shortly after turn left following signs for San Grato, the road continues to the ban on where we leave the car in a small clearing about 1400 m, if there were no place you can leave after a few tens of meters from the sign of prohibition or, alternatively, in some open spaces on the road a little more downstream. We begin to walk the road slightly uphill, the first dry curve we follow the right path going up some steps built with wood logs and marked with stamps gialli, dopo pochi minuti ecco comparire lo stadel Hantschekku 1482 m, come le ultime volte che siamo andati per terre alte anche oggi il cielo è ricoperto dalle nuvole, ma abbiamo la sensazione che prima o poi il sole possa uscire, nel frattempo iniziamo a risalire il ripido crinale raggiungendo Ekku-Ecku 1569 m. Il sentiero sempre ben marcato sale tra i prati, passa accanto alla strada sterrata e dopo lo stadel isolato di Höisgher-Hoidscher in breve arriviamo alla bella cappella di San Grato 1688 m, alcuni documenti attestano che già nel 1600 gli abitanti della zona i venerdì del mese di maggio abbandonavano i lavori agricoli per assistere alla funzione religiosa. Passiamo a monte delle case di Chröitz–Chreuz–Chröiz raggiungendo un boulder shows the number of paths we move into the valley following the trail 1-1C and GSW (Great Walser Trail), continue with the slight slope towards the old mule track Dondeuil, used since medieval merchants, quick to arrive in Ruas 1710 m where we stop for a moment to look at the foot of the first house is a large stone archway under which slides over the oven is also a fresh source. Continues through a bucolic plateau, where the right is the former home of Gradinerp, whose origins date back to about half of 1500, climbed a hill we enter a dense forest of conifers, we cross a stream passing by in a couple of large slabs of stone about two feet long, emerged from the woods we find the abandoned barns stub considered by some scholars one of the most beautiful valley of San Grato, shortly after we see another further upstream of the stadel Vliokj Vlüeckji, smaller than the previous one, but restored with passion. It follows a long stretch through the first tranche for the 1835 Alpine Kekeratschjatz Mettiu me then that of 1894 m, shortly after we begin to find the snow, but thanks to the previously beaten track we go quietly, go through a little valley arriving at a crossroads, we abandon 1F path on the left that leads to the clearing below the Reich and crossed the river on a beautiful wooden bridge with a decision we take to climb up to the plateau where the chalets are set in Alpe Mahdokht 2021 m, with a central chapel of Our Lady of the Snows, was built in 1660 by two builders who miraculously escaped an avalanche. We decide to stop and after lunch we do a few steps from the huts, in the meantime, the clouds have thinned out giving us some really exciting moments, take pictures to capture every moment burst, we take the way of retracing the path back to the huts of stone alp Kekeratschjatz. On the left a very clear track begins to climb, arriving shortly on the grassy knoll Alpe Vleukie 1872 m where we cross the path n. 1 from Alpe Mahdokht, after a short pause go down on the left and crossed a wooden bridge we enter the forest without too much difficulty and following the yellow arrows spend countless between the pastures now immersed in the fog, came to the huts of Ruas resume the route taken in the morning, shortly before arriving at the chapel of San Grato decide to go north to see the huts Bühl 1676 m, above them rises the massive big house built entirely of stone Zeun 1737 m) that Palaz. For the return trip we decided to go down the road, cutting where possible, arrived at the huts Blatti 1491 m on the left continue until you reach the car. Today, more than the inevitable Danilo
to share this day in the mountains there is Kiran fact that after the trek together in August has returned to accompany us, hiking in a valley that has fortunately come to our days almost intact, a step back in time, between the old houses Walser, a people who lived by exploiting what they can offer the mountain, but in an environment that surrounded them. Time difference and leave them to those who consider the mountain a kind of gym, this trip is to be carried out with slow, unhurried in full respect of nature ..
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Sick Mountain: Kiran, and Fabio Danilo

San Grato 1688 m