Living in this valley, where daytime temperatures have been ranging from -2C to +17C in January, it has been a bit hard to imagine that there is a full winter going on just few kilometers out of town and at few hundred meters higher altitude. That’s why we were not […]
December 23, 2014: It was -2 degrees of Celsius in Grenoble at 9am., but later in higher altitudes (1400m) a mere T-shirt was quite enough when stopping for lunch (with Mont Blanc in the backdrop), even if the temperature did not climb over +10C. We had a plan to climb […]
On November 2nd we climbed to Col Vert (1766m) in Vercors Range. The total hike distance from Villard-de-Lans (1085m) to the summit and then back via a longer and gentler route was 15.2 kilometers and took us almost 5 hours. (click on the photos to enlarge)