We will do the Ut4M, a 40-kilometer mountain marathon again this August. Last year we did the last section of the 160-kilometer race on Chartreuse range (we did not quite finish, though), but this year we’ll do the first section on the Vercors range. Today we wanted to familiarize ourself […]
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 […]
We moved to our new home on December 16, and a couple of days later left the sea of boxes behind to spend two weeks on the interrail trip in Europe (there will be another blog post on it). When back in early January we were hopeful of getting internet […]
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), […]
We love to live in the place with seasons, not only seasons in weather but also in fresh produce. Earlier this Spring, like last year too, we had a citrus fruit season when an abundance of mandarines, clementines, and satsumas were available (of course lemon, lime, oranges, and grapefruit are […]
Not much has been done yet to clean things up after last weekend’s flooding. Yesterday’s running race was rerouted to avoid the tree debris left behind by the receding water. The road and some of the pedestrian paths running along the river are still covered with thick mud.