Less than 500 meters away, to be exact. We got some sleet yesterday afternoon, but the overnight rain melted it all. This morning there were some snow flurries on the lower slopes of Chartreuse and Belledonne. While during the week we had some gorgeous sunny days, with daytime temperatures climbing […]
I guess I posted a similar title a couple of weeks ago. The weather forecast promised rain for the morning and then clearing skies for the afternoon. Well, it did not happen. It was varying clouds and sun in the morning and at 2pm. when we headed out it was […]
Our long runs have met some bad luck recently. Partly because of us, as we’ve been watching winter sports on TV, but today nature was against us. It was barely snowing when we left (after watching two and half sets of Djokovic-Murray Australian Open final for three hours), but just […]
… that my transition lenses wouldn’t turn black, or we couldn’t go running. We had our first (and last?) snow last night, but following a day of icy drizzle and rain, all the snow is gone now.
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)