The heat was back (and still is) after a few cooler days, and we took advantage of the nice weather going on another bicycle tour on Saturday (14.9.). Since we have fully explored the two nearby valleys — Grésivaudan and Isère — we looked for other options within a short […]
Our weekend plans had to be revised since I broke my fourth toe on Friday night. So, no running and long hikes for a while. I did manage to try on new MTB shoes, so next week’s bicycle tour is still in the plans. Since the weather was so gorgeous, […]
This past Sunday (23.6.) we returned to the Southern Vercors in attempt to hike the route we started a year ago but were forced to quit because of rain and strong wind. This time we were much luckier — it was all sunshine and warm, but not too hot, with […]
For our second week of Winter vacation we returned to Grenoble. The snow situation was no better around the town, but there was a strange meteorological phenomenon going on, known as inversion: the temperature increased with altitude causing the low-hanging clouds to block pollution close to the ground. For the […]
Université Grenoble Alpes’ alpine botanic garden at Col Du Lautaret closed for the winter last weekend, so we thought it was about the time to pay a visit on its last day of opening, although the season was already over — there were not too many plants flowering left. Also […]
This is our first hike since we came back from Singapore, and counts towards the series of preparations for the 40km mountain marathon we are planning to run in August on the Vercors range. We packed the breakfast, so we were on the road early. And we were almost the […]
We had friends visiting from the US this weekend. Today it was one of the first real Summer days here in Grenoble, and what did we do? We took these guys above 2000 meters to show them Winter (when it actually just unseasonally snowed in their home state). This is […]
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, […]
Finally we managed to hike around Néron; we’ve made several attempts before, but all of them were compromised by either wrong route choices, late start (getting too hungry too early!), fallen apart hiking boots, or something else. Our legs were still pretty sore after the Saturday’s recce run, but we […]