When we left Grenoble at 8am. (on Wed Nov. 11) the town was completely covered in thick clouds. When we reached Sappey-en-Chartreuse at about 1000 meters we started to see the surrounding peaks, and then the clouds were behind and below us and we enjoyed sun shine for the rest […]
Unlike in the last weekend’s hike, when we saw just two people and no animals (at least mammals), this Sunday (November 08) we saw heards of people and animals. The climb to the top of la Grande Sure (1920m) was pretty populated. We took a longer detour back to the […]
This was the first time (Oct 31) we rented a hybrid car from Citélib, a Yaris (automatic). It was comfortable and very quiet to drive. Actually, so quiet that we scared some hunters walking on the road; they did not hear us approaching until we had sneaked right behind them. […]
Before our early morning flight (6:15am) to Budapest we spent a night in Geneva at hotel Windsor near the railway station. They had a cool exhibition of pop art in their lobby. We also found a brew pub nearby and there the most pathetic nachos (no photos, sorry, but take […]
This weekend there was an ultra trail running race in Grenoble (Ut4M = Ultra Tour des 4 Massifs). It crossed four mountain ranges around the town: Vercors, Oisans, Belledonne, and Chartreuse. Runners from over 20 nationalities took part. There were several race categories with different distances and different positive vertical […]
Next Saturday’s ultra trail race Ut4M will take us to Chamechaude (not quite to the top but pretty high anyway), which at height of 2082m is the highest peak in the Chartreuse range. Today, we made a short practice hike all the way to the top. Because of the rain, […]
After the fourth week of the heat wave we escaped the town again, this time to Vaujany in the canton of Bourg d’Oisans, not far from Des 2 Alpes where we were two weeks ago. Beside enjoying cooler mountain air our weekend getaway had another purpose, namely to watch the […]
After the second week of the heatwave we escaped a little further to Les Deux Alpes ski resort for the national day holiday weekend. We started driving on Saturday morning and after clearing the traffic jam, in a couple of hours we were at Lac du Chambon which is a […]
After the first week of the heat wave we escaped the town for the weekend to the nearest ski resort on Belledonne range, Chamrousse at 1750 meters above the sea level. The difference in temperatures, especially at night, was significant. Even if daytime temperatures climbed quite high (up to +30C), […]