We enjoyed the sunny and warm First of May hiking on the Vercors. This time our destination was a sightseeing platform Vertige des Cimes that extends a few meters over the edge of the mountain with about 300 meters drop below. It is an easy hike away from the […]
We spent a lovely Easter holiday weekend in Les Saisies, a family ski resort in Savoie department. This also marked the end of the Winter (skiing) season 2018/19 for us, since Les Saisies was practically one of the last stations to still be open this late in the Spring. We […]
We finished our Winter vacation testing our new snowshoes in Montagnes de Lans on Vercors. We were quite happily surprised that there was still so much snow, although not perfect for snowshoeing. We walked to Combe Oursière and back, total of 6.3 kilometers with the ascent (and descent) of 263 […]
Again this year we booked a week-long winter vacation in Serre Chevalier valley and Le Monetier-les-Bains (actually the same apartment we stayed last Spring). The week had a catastrophic start as Tei fell ill on the first evening, and kept hugging the porcelain for the whole night with practically no […]
On Sunday (3.3.) we visited the cave in La Balme-les-Grottes. We are not really great fans of caves, but this one looked interesting, safe, and not too far a drive away. On our way to the caves, we had a little walk in and around a small town of Le […]
This Saturday (2.3.) we did something very uncharacteristic to us, something we never do voluntarily on our free time, namely visit a mall on purpose without an intent to buy something (specific) or look for something, but just spend some quality time together. This winter’s “Alpes is(h)ere” magazine ran stories […]
This past Sunday’s (24.2.) hiking trip took us to an abandoned ski station of St. Honoré 1500 above the Matheysine plain. We had seen the buildings of the old station from the valley below many times when driving towards La Mure or back, wondering what they were; they looked like […]
Because we have concentrated on skiing this winter — we started the season early and have went skiing at least once a week, since the conditions have been quite good — we have not done any hiking. One third of the country having started their winter vacation this week we […]
This is the second week in a row when we take the midweek off from work and go skiing to Vercors plain to profit from the nice weather the fullest, since this winter — especially during the weekends — has been quite bleak. However, this will be changing since the […]