Start from the parking at the now deserted Super Saint Bernard ski area and follow the summer road, where you are unlikely to be on your own! On the way you will pass by one of the ventilation towers for the road tunnel before turning off the track to the Hospice and skinning into the Combe de Barasson. If you can’t see the pylons you will hear them buzzing as you journey up the valley towards a steepening before the Col. One or two kick turns may be needed to pass this, before gentle terrain takes you to the Col Ouest de Barasson. You are now on the Swiss-Italian border and can see the magnificent views down into the Aosta Valley.

After transitioning, enjoy your turns skiing down the wide valley below on mellow terrain. Then, keeping some height, turn into the Combe des Morts where skins go back on for the final ascent to the hospice.

Follow the track (which has marker poles) to the Hospice itself. As ski touring huts go, this is unique! Enjoy the hospitality and the magnificent building.