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June to October

Summer

Wildflower meadow at the door, a treeline of larch and stone pine, and evenings long enough to eat outside until ten.

Two daypacks and walking poles beside the summer trail leaving Chalet Solaire’s wildflower meadow.

Leaving by the meadow path

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On foot

Walkingfrom the door

The bisse paths run level along the hillside and make an easy first day; the Plaine Morte glacier and the Wildhorn ridge are a serious one. In October the larches turn and the plateau empties.

A minimum stay of four nights applies in summer.

4 nights

Minimum stay in summer

Chalet Solaire among golden larches on a clear October afternoon.

October The larches turn and the plateau empties.

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Evening

Long eveningson the terrace

The south terrace is where the summer stay actually happens: breakfast in the sun, the wood-fired oven in the evening, and the valley holding light until well after dinner.

Summer breakfast laid on Chalet Solaire’s south terrace above the Rhône valley.

Breakfast in the sun, the valley below

The south terrace

Aerial of the chalet at Plans-Mayens in late June, ringed by larch and stone pine, a wildflower meadow, the Rhone valley unfolding below.

The whole house. Your kind of stay.

The quiet halfof the year

Summer weeks are easier to find, and the house is arguably better in them.

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