Pissette Waterfall

Date of your route : May 18, 2025
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good
Very busy route : No

Steep but doable climb. Done with 2 dogs of 10 and 20kg who are used to hiking. We had to cross the river in several places. In some places, we had to take the dogs in our arms, but we managed without getting too wet. And it's spring, so there's more water.
The views are magnificent, the waterfall superb, and we left the path to get even closer to it. Great! A must do!

NB: we didn't come across any herds. At the start of the walk, a sign tells us where the herds are in the area depending on the date. In spring, we were in the right sector, i.e. the one with no herds.

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Date of your route : Jun 12, 2023
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

Steep climb. Be careful in summer with the herds guarded by a sheepdog that appears aggressive in the first part of the hike. Beautiful view of La Blanche, Puy Saint Vincent and Le Pelvoux. Crossing the streams can be tricky in case of flooding in spring. You can easily climb to the foot of the waterfall via a well-marked path just after the last crossroads before starting the descent.

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Date of your route : Aug 25, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good
Very busy route : No

The climb is a bit steep, so the break at Coul d'Aval is welcome. Beautiful scenery.
La Pissette certainly lives up to its name.
The descent through the larch trees was much more pleasant.
A good little hike.

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Date of your route : Jul 27, 2021
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

The climb is very steep on a narrow path. It's a shame that the waterfall is quite far away. Otherwise, the view was very pretty.
The path is not very busy, and I understood why: there are herds not far from the path that are guarded by sheepdogs. Even though we stayed on the marked path, the sheepdog chased us for quite a long time...
Be careful and behave appropriately to avoid accidents.

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Date of your route : Aug 12, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average
Very busy route : No

The route consists of an hour and a half of very steep climbing followed by an hour of descent along the same route.
The route passes quite far from the Pissette waterfall.
Hike completed in August 2020 without encountering any other hikers.
The view is nice but not extraordinary compared to other hikes in the area.

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Hello and thank you for your comment for future readers, which confirms my opinion of Wednesday, 10 July 2019.

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Date of your route : Feb 21, 2020
Reliability of the description : ★★☆☆☆ Disappointing
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average

Route suitable for family hiking...???
Very steep and narrow path, difficult for children
Disappointed...

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Date of your route : Jul 19, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average

A varied hike, but certainly less spectacular than the other higher ones in the Vallouise area. However, there are beautiful views of Pelvoux throughout. Good for warming up or resting.
It took us 3 hours, including a picnic, without going too fast.

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Hello Jo42290, and thank you for your comments!

Assessing difficulty is somewhat subjective: what an experienced hiker might consider easy could be considered moderate or even difficult by a more occasional hiker or... children.

That's why we have a rating scale that takes into account distance and elevation gain: https://www.visorando.com/article-recomma...

According to the scale (and also looking at the altitude diagram), this hike deserves to be rated as Moderate. I just looked at the history: when it was evaluated by the moderators, we changed the rating from Easy to Moderate before publishing the hike. It is likely that the author has since changed the rating back to Easy.

I have just changed the rating back to Moderate.

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Date of your route : Jul 02, 2019
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

I don't know the author's hiking level, but to say that this is an easy hike is an exaggeration. On the other hand, be careful with future participants with children, as saying that this is a family hike may cause frustration for some parents who will see their untrained children asking to go back down!
Having met experienced local hikers, the second part of the circular is considered dangerous.
These same people do not call it the "pissette waterfall" which is on the opposite slope, but rather the "pisse waterfall" (pisse meaning piss in French).

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Date of your route : Sep 03, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★☆☆ Average
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A pleasant walk to warm up. Beautiful views of the Pelvoux mountain range.

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Date of your route : Jul 16, 2018
Reliability of the description : ★★★★☆ Good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★☆ Good
Route interest : ★★★☆☆ Average

I chose this easy hike to get my legs going. And, to my surprise, I struggled for what was, all in all, a rather ordinary experience. The enclosed nature of the route certainly played a part (heat, lack of air, etc.).
In fact, my wife and I didn't meet any other hikers, which seemed suspicious.
Disappointed, two days later I did the Lac Laramont-Lac du Serpent route, classified as moderately difficult, ready to turn back. This time, everything went smoothly and... easily. The same was true for the other outings.
The moral of the story: the "easy" rating on the Pissette app doesn't seem very accurate to me, unless you enjoy walking along scree slopes in the blazing sun.

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Date of your route : Aug 04, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★★★ Very good
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★☆ Good

A pleasant walk that can be extended by widening the circular loop via Adret on the way down.

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The time indicated by the software is often underestimated. In the video credits, I no longer indicate the time taken for the routes because it is a random variable.
The pace can vary from 200 metres of elevation gain per hour to 600 metres or more.
It is better to rely on distance and elevation gain.
Knowing the values of these two parameters and your personal pace, it is then possible to calculate the duration.

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Date of your route : May 26, 2017
Reliability of the description : ★★★☆☆ Average
Ease of following the route : ★★★★★ Very good
Route interest : ★★★★★ Very good

Average duration greatly underestimated. A sign at the start of the walk indicates 2 hours to reach Coul d'Amont. 20 minutes to walk around and come back down?! An extra hour seems much more reasonable (for an average hiker). Especially when the torrents are raging in spring.
Beautiful view of the Pelvoux massif.
Alain, very average hiker. It took me more than 3 hours 20 minutes to complete this hike ;-(

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