Tour des Arpilles, L’Etivaz
16th June 2008
L’Etivaz is a small village on the on the col des Mosses and famed for it’s cheese. They make the cheese up at the alpages which are high altitude milking parlours, farmers spend the summer up at these alpages and you’ll find them every few kilometres. The cheese is then matured in caves down in the valley for around seven months. There’s a shop in the village that’s open on a Sunday so we didn’t take a sandwich with us, instead we bought some L’Etivaz cheese and some bread to make a picnic.
Our route was to follow the L’Eau Froide stream up the valley climbing up around 1900m. From there we would drop down into the valley of the Torneresse and back to L’Etivaz.
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