📝 Detailed information
🏢 About the local organisation
After ten years, the municipality of Champagny-en-Vanoise wishes to welcome a new team of volunteers as part of a very specific project: the trail opening in the high mountains. An atypical workcamp in an exceptional setting located at an altitude of 2,500m. Nature lovers, welcome
💼 What the programme involves
For two weeks, you will work to open trails on a natural and renowned site in the heart of the Regional Natural Park of Vanoise: you will clear the way, lay the trail out and prune trees. You will carry out this work with a due respect to the existing fauna and flora and will be supervised by municipal officials and specialized Alpine guides. As the work place is not accessible by car, you will walk every day to the work site, that is 2 hours of hiking per day (1h outward/ 1h return). The work will be carried out at an altitude of 2000/2500m, at a rate of 4 hours to 5 hours a day.
🏠 Accommodation on site
For the week you will be accommodated in the Plan des Gouilles refuge, where you will share the collective dormitories and have access to toilets and a kitchen. The living conditions will be simple and proper to a high altitude place. On weekends you can go down to the village of Champagny-sur-Vanoise where a campsite will be reserved for you. The refuge is a 2 hour walk from the village.
📍 About the location
This site is exceptional for its geographical position. During the week, you will be immersed in the heart of the mountains and you will meet marmots, eagles, deers, ibexes and many others You will be able to explore the surrounding area with its many hiking trails and enjoy a breathtaking sunset every evening. Alpine guides will tell you about the preservation of this environment and its richness in terms of animals and vegetals. During the weekends, you will meet the villagers and discover their terroir.
⚠️ Requirements
This project will allow you to learn about both environmental preservation and trail development. Working in a team, both with the technical leaders and with other volunteers, you will develop your listening to others and to the instructions, your adaptability and versatility, rigor and tenacity. Those are skills you will also strengthen through group life.
ℹ️ Additional information
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