Yesterday we returned to the same rough area where we hiked three weeks ago. This time we started from a different place, at parking of La Doua. To reach the parking we drove several kilometers on a very rocky unpaved road, constantly fearing of getting a flat. The first part of the hike, to Source du Gargoton, traveled in a very wet forest. Yes, that’s right. There were streams gushing down everywhere, even on some sections of the trail, and the air was so humid it almost felt cold. The vegetation was lush and showed no signs of aridity we see everywhere else.  From Source we followed a ridge to Col de la Perrière. That was a completely different scenery, dry and scrubby. Throughout our hike, both in the forest and on the ridge, we saw a lot of blueberries and blackberries, but they were quite dry and tasteless.

When we approached Source du Gargoton, more precisely 3.35 kilometers, my Polar watch stopped recording the distance. Afterwards, when I had uploaded the activity on the computer, we learned that it had located us on the mountains in Serbia. When we returned from Col de la Perrière the same route, the watch relocated us again at Source du Gargoton, with the distance traveled of 588.15 kilometers — which is kind of strange since the distance to the place  where  the watch thought we had been,  a little north of the town Ozice, — as indicated in the map on Polar Flow’s website — is about 1000 kilometers away, so the return trip should have been more like 2000 rather than 600 kilometers.

The hike took us 5h 22mins, and I estimate we walked about 12 kilometers with  approximately 900 meters of ascent and descent.