Great day today to the Col du Bonhomme

Great day today to the Col du Bonhomme

2500 meters. The elevation makes the air thin enough to feel when you are ascending with a pack, working hard. we breathed really hard. So maybe 50 steps then a 30 second rest. Parts were steep, basically a scramble. We crossed water , snow and did I mention it was...

Great first day of real hiking

  7 hr fairly robust hike. We decided not to do the rope bridge (a difficult variant) since it would have added another 4 hours and there were too many clouds to see anything once we got up that high. Also we wanted to save our legs because in 2 days we will be...