{"id":14495,"date":"2025-09-12T17:00:34","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:00:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/?p=14495"},"modified":"2025-08-14T19:20:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T18:20:19","slug":"alta-via-del-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.instants-choisis.ch\/blog\/alta-via-del-sale\/?lang=en","title":{"rendered":"Alta Via del Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
\nIt’s Wednesday. We arrive at the entrance to the High Salt Road, unsure if we’ll be allowed to enter. Officially, the road is restricted to vehicles less than 18 feet long, 5 feet high and weighing less than 3.5 tons..
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\nAt the ticket booth where you pay your way, I don’t hide the fact that VivaLaVida is breaking the three previous criteria and I’m glad I did. The attendant tells me that my honesty does me credit and that he’s happy to let me through. He tells me that in an overhanging section, I’ll have to drive close the edge to avoid hitting the rock but that he thinks it should be fine.
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\nWe are very happy to be able to discover this legendary trail!
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\n1. In the wellknown hairpin just before the Pass of Boaria, where we turned back on our bikes the day before.
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\n2. The trail winds between 6,000 and 7,200 feet above sea level for around thirty-five miles.
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\n3. Landscape is superb.
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\n4. After the Don Barbera refuge and the overhanging passage passed without any problem.
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\n5. Part closer to the tree line.
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\n6. Mount Saccarel, at 6,600 feet elevation.
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\n7. High altitude landscape.
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\n8. Former cannon battery of Mount Saccarel.
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\n9. From Mount Saccarel, the trail we will take to descend. It is in poor condition and it will take us more than two hours to reach La Brigue where we will spend the night in a small campground.
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\n10. Chapel of Our Lady of the Fountains, just before La Brigue.
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\n11. After a good night’s sleep preceded by a dinner in a small restaurant, we go shopping food in Breil-sur-Roya and then take a trail leading to the Mercantour Park. Here, the pretty hilltop village of Soargue.
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\n12. Breil-sur-Roya.
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\n13. From a little higher up, where we stopped for lunch.
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\nWe meet a Mercantour park ranger who informs us that the heart of the park has been extended and that the planned trail now crosses it and it’s thus closed to all traffic.
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\nHe points us to an alternative route that’s a bit of a detour but allows us to avoid the heart of the park. So we retrace our steps to a junction and take the indicated trail. The loop is significantly longer but allows us to discover the hills of the hinterland with the Mediterranean sea in the background.
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\n14. We find a gorgeous bivouac spot a few miles before the Turini barracks which we will discover the next day.
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\n15. Walk at the end of the day.
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\nTo be followed soon… \ud83d\ude09
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