In three months there will be 160-kilometer mountain race that traverses the four massifs around Grenoble: Vercors, Taillefer, Belledonne, and Chartreuse. We are going to run the last 40-kilometer leg on Chartreuse. Today, we had a recce run/walk on the first part — the major climb — of that leg. […]
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)