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Access: Les Gets resort. Cross the resort and head up the Route des Chavannes to the Chavannes car park.
(S/E) From the Chavannes car park, walk past the Chavannes hotels and head towards the golf course along a wide path. Climb to 1,523 m; ignore the dangerous downhill path, which is reserved for mountain bikes. Continue climbing up the mountain pasture and, further up, turn right onto a wider path leading to the Grand Pré chairlifts.
(1) Walk past the Troncs chairlift and stay on the road. At 1,333m, take the road on the right. At the first bend, you can opt to climb through the forest to the Pré Facre chairlift (to avoid the road), which overlooks the resort of Morzine.
At a place called Les Raverettes, turn right and head up the wide path towards Lac de Nyon Guérin or the Col de Joux Plane. The climb is gentle along a path that passes beneath the Pointe de Nyon (2,019 m). Continue along the path to Lac de Nyon Guérin (1,620 m).
(2) Walk past a building and carry on straight ahead across the meadow to the junction signposting the Col de Joux-Plane to the left (do not follow the sign for the Joux Plane chalets). Head back down to a path on the edge of the forest on the right. Cross back into a meadow. Reach the pass via a steeper climb at 1,712m.
Take in the magnificent panoramic view of the valley and the various peaks: Nyon and Angolon.
(3) Head down to the lake, walk round it and take the road towards Morzine. Stay on the road until you reach a junction where a path branches off before the Ranfolly chairlift, opposite a restaurant (which displays hiking route maps).
(4) Turn left, go round two bends and carry on straight ahead, ignoring all the paths to the right and left, until you reach Les Chavannes (S/E).
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