Pleney summit from Tremplin

Start from the Tremplin hotel on the Front de Neige side – looking up towards the buildings at the top of the lift. If you now look across to your right you will see a broad gravel track disappearing into the woods on the far side of the Luge Track. Carefully cross the luge, and follow the track uphill into the woods heading North West.

After 1 km the route starts to swing left towards the south West and continues to climb – don’t follow the level track on your left hand side as that goes only to some chalets. After another 500m the route meets the road near the Y’s car park, with some chalets on your right. Cross the road and follow the woodland path now heading uphill and South West.

After 300m on the woodland path you will come to the road again, this time follow it passing four wooden chalets on your right. After the last of the chalets the path heads back into the woods.

Warning: the next part of the path is clearly a downhill mountain bike VTT track, and you must listen out for bikes descending towards you.

You will cross the road twice more, following the woodland path, and will come out into a broad grassy area. At this point you have walked 2 km from the start.

At the end of the grassy area you will join the road for the last time on the way up. You will pass some chalets and there is a water trough on the right in the middle of the group of chalets where you can refresh your water bottle. The road leads to a broad parking place next to the La Mouille restaurant. At this point you have walked 2.3km and are 305m above your start point – time for a coffee!

Leaving La Mouille you will walk under a ski lift – the first of four. Follow the level gravel track across the slope with uphill on your right. 300m after leaving La Mouille the track splits, stay on the uphill side (right side) avoiding the track that drops downhill ahead and left of you.

The track stays level from this point for 400m until you reach the start of a gentle rise as the track steepens. The view of Morzine below really opens up here, as well as the Prodains valley and Avoriaz on your left , and the summit of the Pointe de Nyon ahead of you.

Keep following the track uphill, when you reach a steep turn to the right you will have walked 3.6km already.

At the turn the track doubles back on itself to head North again, still rising across the face of La Pleney, and you walk under the lifts that you have already passed once before. The buildings at the top of the slope appear, and the track meets the ridge just beyond the buildings – that’s almost all of the uphill. So far you have walked 4.2 km and climbed 500m