Canyons de Haute-Savoie

Authors: Charletty / Gudefin / Hugon - CDS 74-2004 - French

Haute-Savoie is the land of the mountains, most known of the Mont-Blanc. Haute-Savoie is also the land of the caving with two of the deepest caves in the world (the Gouffre Jean Bernard -1602 m below Folly massif and the Gouffre Mirolda -1733 m below Criou Massif in Samoens). But the Haute Savoie is also the land of the canyons.

The relatively high altitude offers grandiose and varied landscapes, while glaciaire nutrition basins throughout the year provide cold water but also an interesting flow. Custom neoprene clothing is recommended.

This guidebook describes 40 canyons, ranging from simple walks through and around water to alpine canyons with a big commitment.

This book contains 40 topographic sheets of several canyons from simple strolls to alpine canyons with a high commitment in calcaire pre-Alps of Haut Giffre, Bornes, and Chablais, in the gneiss-canyons of Aiguilles Rouges, or granite canyons of the Mont-Blanc.

One of the jewels of the canyons of the Alpes du Nord is the Diosaz (nowadays access to these canyons is prohibited by municipal decree). Or Rock canyon, a real water play track with surprising edges.

We hope you will enjoy this book, even more, that you are going through the same great time when we when we visited these canyons.

Authors: Christian Charletty Bruno HUGON, Gérard GUDEFIN, Jean-Pierre Beaudoin

The content:

• warnings
• history
• Why this guidebook?
• Scoring of the difficulty of the canyon
• Use of the guide
• list of the canyons
• regional support
• typology of the canyons
• Chips topos:
• No1 - Canyon d'Angon
• No2 - Cascades d'Arpenaz
• No3 - Canyon de Barberini
• No4 - Canyon de la Belle au Bois
• No5 - Cascades de la Belle Inconnue
• No6 - Cascades de Bellevaux
• No7 - Gorges du Bronze
• No8 - Canyon du Clévieux
• No9 - Torrent de Coeur
• No10 - Canyon de Creve Coeur
• No11 - Canyon de la Diosaz
• No12 - Cascades Doran
• No13 - Ravin d'Etry
• No14 - Cascades des Favrands
• No15 - Gorges du Fier
• No16 - Canyon de la Filière
• No17 - Canyon du Foron
• No18 - Cascades des Fours
• No19 - Canyon de Frontenex
• No20 - Gorges du Giffre
• No21 - Canyon du Glapet
• No22 - Canyon de la Mine
• No23 - Canyon de Montmin
• No24 - Cascades de Morette
• No25 - Canyon du Nant d'Orlier
• No26 - Nant de la Rippaz
• No27 - Cascades de Nyon
• No28 - Cascades d'Ox
• No29 - Gorges Parmand
• NO30 - Canyon of the Potty
• No31 - Cascades Reninge
• NO32 - Rock Canyon in the ou de Balme
• No33 - Canyon des Sambuis
• No34 - Cascades du Saix
• No35 - Canyon de la Tine of the Fund (amont)
• No36 - Canyon de la Tine of the Fund (aval)
• No37 - Canyon de Tré la Téte
• No38 - Torrent d'Ubine
• No39 - Canyon des Usses
• No40 - Canyon de la Vogealle
• Acknowledgements
• bibliography
• useful addresses

162p: Many color photos. 24 cm. 2nd Edition

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 2741702888
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-2741702887