Summer Outdoors
Coniferous forests, alpine pastures, fresh air, and historic trails: in the summer, the Upper Valley offers routes for hikers and cyclists, ancient villages to explore, and local traditions to discover at your own pace.
Activities and sports
In the Upper Great St Bernard Valley, you can enjoy mountain sports as well as equipped areas for practicing your favorite disciplines
Whether covered in a white winter blanket or immersed in the brilliant green of summer, the Upper Great St Bernard Valley is a territory to be explored in the open air. Among peaks over 3,000 meters, ancient forests, and pristine waterways, every season offers its own way to experience the mountains.
Highlights
Winter in the Snow
From the 22 km of sun-drenched slopes at Crévacol to the Foyer de Fond and the Snow Park in Flassin, all the way to the untamed trails for ski mountaineering and snowshoeing: winter in the Upper Gran San Bernardo Valley is on a human scale, far from the crowds.
Tradition & Traditional Sports
Fiolet
Born at the end of the nineteenth century as a peasant pastime and today a discipline with an official team championship, fiolet is among the oldest and most defining traditional sports of the Aosta Valley. It is played in the meadows in spring, between the melting of the snow and the first grazing: with a wooden club (fisa), the player knocks an oval ball resting on a stone (pila) into the air and hits it on the fly to hurl it over 150 meters away.
When: Spring (March – May) in the valley meadows.
Spirit: A community ritual of sporting dexterity and outdoor gathering.