Mont Bichet, also known as Les Trables and, formerly, La Crêche, is a mostly wooded mountain in eastern France belonging to the

Chablais Alps The Chablais Alps (, ) are a mountain range in the Western Alps. They are situated between Lake Geneva and the Mont Blanc Massif. The Col des Montets separates them from the Mont Blanc Massif in the south, and the Rhône valley separates them ...

. Mont Bichet is the

Haute-Savoie Haute-Savoie () is a Departments of France, department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Regions of France, region of Southeastern France, bordering both Switzerland and Italy. Its Prefectures in France, prefecture is Annecy. To the north is Lake Gene ...

department and is surrounded by the three communes of the Brevon valley,

Bellevaux Bellevaux (; ) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France. See also *Communes of the Haute-Savoie department The following is a list of the 279 Communes of France, communes of the F ...

, Lullin and Vailly. Its elevation is . Its slopes include many former alpine pastures, now in ruins, covered by woodland and heavily populated with game animals. The alpine pastures on the mountain to its south at Sur les Monts fall from a ridge line with a height of which extends southwest to the peak of Narmont at high.

Alpine pastures

* Le Moan to the east, is a former alpine pasture located in the commune of Vailly, with an elevation of . It has been in disuse and wooded since the 1980s; its hillsides were used by the Maquis resistance fighters in World War II. A path leads from Le Moan to Sur les Monts. * Le Plaine is another former pasture in Vailly, also used by the maquis. Disused and covered in woodland, it hosts a mill. It is accessible up to le Lavouet by taking the Sous la Joux road from the centre of the hamlet up to Granges Vulliez, passing on the left through the forest, then take the trail to le Plaine. * Sur les Monts is a

lieu-dit ''Lieu-dit'' (; plural: ''lieux-dits'') (literally ''location-said'', "named place") is a French language, French toponymic term for a small geographical area bearing a traditional name. The name usually refers to some characteristic of the plac ...

located in Bellevaux commune, at elevation. * Les Granges de Lullin * Le Gros Feu Mountains of the Alps Mountains of Haute-Savoie

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