Walk the Tour du Mont Blanc
With
Ralph Dobbertin
July 2024
What
I will be walking 170 km from July 3 to july 21 2024. The path starts in France and goes around Mont Blanc, the highest mountain in the Alps, through Italy and Switzerland.
The first two days will be spent acclimating to the elevation. We will be camping most of the time though we anticipate a day or two in a Refuge etc. Packs will be slightly heavier because we will be carrying our tents etc.
The Camino Frances had an elevation gain of about 13 km over 31 days and 800 km distance. This tour will have an elevation gain of about 10km over 10 days and 170 km distance…so the hike is shorter but much steeper… with a heavier pack.
Luckily we will only be carrying a little bit of food as there are places to eat and re stock.
My biggest concern this time are my knees on constant steep terrain.
Take a look at my blog posts (below) as they get made, hopefully, daily.
Interesting video to Help you Understand the Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB)
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I was plotting my route on a mapping app and was a little humbled by the vastness of the Mont Blanc Massive when I turned on the 3D feature!!
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Pictures from first long hike
So many campers Some muddy trails Trail lunch Beautiful chalets Will be climbing a peak like this in 2 days.
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...
Having a night of hard rain thunder and lightning
Hard core.
A big day today even tho we started small with an 8 km hike.
We are in Les houches. No one who hasn’t walked the TMB has heard of it. But it’s the start and finish of the hike. A very rainy day that turned hot and humid then stormy and cold. Tomorrow’s hike depends on the weather. There may be thunderstorms and one doesn’t want...
