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Rhone Route, Stage 3/8

National route No. 1, Stage 3: Brig – Sierre

Description

National route: No. 1 (Andermatt – Geneva)
Length: 42 km
Ascent • Descent: ↑ 180 m • ↓ 320 m
Lowest point • Highest point: 524 m • 672 m


Fitness level: medium

National route No. 1: Rhone Route: Stages; 1. Andermatt – Oberwald; 2. Oberwald – Brig; 3. Brig – Sierre; 4. Sierre – Martigny; 5. Martigny – Montreux; 6. Montreux – Morges; 7. Morges – Genève; 8. Genève – Bois de Chancy

The main valley in the Valais widens, sun warms the dry mountain slopes. Between Leuk and Sierre an unruly part of the Rhone, and the Pfynwald, a nature reserve on a huge mound of glacier detritus; a motorway will be built here by 2020.

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