Au Petit Vélan
Alpes-Valaisannes · FR
- Altitude
- 1,622 m
- Sleeping places
- 32
- Country
- France
- Coordinates
- 45.9502, 7.2079
- Booking method
- Online calendar
Book at the hut's own booking page Open in the HutScanner map
You can walk to 8 huts from here in a day, listed below with times and grades, and we read the calendars of 19 huts in this network daily, so a multi-night route through here can be checked night by night.
Au Petit Vélan is an alpine hut at 1622 m in the Alpes-Valaisannes, FR. 8 other huts can be reached from here on foot in a day.
Walkable from here
- Maison Saint-Pierre - 0h02, 0.07 km, +5 m
- Cabane du Plan du Jeu - 2h55, 6.91 km, +759 m
- Cabane du Vélan - 3h12, 7.01 km, +1085 m
- Cabane de Valsorey - 3h47, 7.78 km, +1500 m
- Cabane de la Tsissette - 4h19, 11.05 km, +795 m
- Cabane du Col de Mille - 4h53, 11.78 km, +1192 m
- Hospice du Grand-St-Bernard - 5h05, 12.3 km, +1222 m
- Cabane Marcel Brunet - 7h40, 19.26 km, +1546 m
Times are estimates for an average fit hiker - terrain and conditions vary. Grades are the SAC hiking scale, judged the way the app judges them: the hardest ground that runs far enough to characterise the leg.
How to book
You book Au Petit Vélan directly with the hut. HutScanner is a planning tool and does not take bookings or hold beds.
About Alpes-Valaisannes
32 huts connected by 140 walking routes in the Alpes-Valaisannes massif.
Guides for this region: Planning the Walker's Haute Route, Chamonix to Zermatt · Using HutScanner with ChatGPT, Claude and other AI assistants
Planning a route through Au Petit Vélan
Booking one hut is the easy half. The work is the chain: every night needs a bed, at a hut you can walk to from the one before, on consecutive dates, and one full night sends you back to the start. From Au Petit Vélan there are 8 onward huts within a day's walk, listed above, inside an Alpes-Valaisannes network of 32 huts. HutScanner searches that network for a sequence that works on your dates, rather than leaving you to try the huts one at a time.
Au Petit Vélan books online but publishes no calendar HutScanner can read, so a route through it is planned around the 19 huts in Alpes-Valaisannes that do publish one, and this night is confirmed with the hut itself. Plan a multi-night route from Au Petit Vélan.
If you plan trips through ChatGPT or Claude, they can run this same search for you without opening the app, over the regions HutScanner has reviewed by hand. How that works is described in using HutScanner with AI assistants, and the endpoint is documented in the OpenAPI spec.
Something wrong on this page?
If a detail here is out of date or wrong - the phone number, the bed count, whether the hut is open - tell us and we will correct it. Wardens and hut associations can also ask for anything to be changed or removed: see the page for hut wardens.