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About 4km south of Vérossaz as the crow flies, but a mite longer via the waymarked TDM trail, the charming crowded village of Mex is reached by a short but tortuous road directly from St-Maurice. Located 700m above the Rhône, with woodland both above and below, a cutting dug by the St Barthélemy stream to the south, and the Cime de l’Est soaring above the village to the southwest, Mex has considerable merit as a staging post and short-term base, from some of whose upper houses a fine view can be had of the Grand Combin in the southeast. Overnight accommodation may be found here at the local café-restaurant, Auberge de l’Armailli (see ssss1).

A path descends from the village to Evionnaz in the valley south of St-Maurice, but by following the TDM southwestward, the Salanfe basin with its large dammed lake, busy auberge and views of the south flank of the Dents du Midi, may be gained by a walk of around 3½–4hrs. However, by a combination of road and mule-path, that same basin is approached by a somewhat more circuitous route that climbs above the deep cleft of the Trient gorge near Salvan.