(October 21, 2018) Sometimes, way too often here actually, it happens that the weather turns out nothing like it was forecast (and only after the fact the forecast is updated to match the reality!). This past Sunday was supposed to be all sunshine, but we only saw a glimpse of […]
(October 6, 2018) It is nice when you plan the weekend according to the weather forecast, and the weather actually turns out exactly like predicted. For this weekend, Saturday was supposed to be warm and sunny, and Sunday chillier and rainy. And that’s how it has been so far. Therefore, […]
(October 3, 2018) We took our moderately acrophobic friends to a mountain hike yesterday. We thought that Charmant Som (1867m) on Chartreuse would be a good compromise between ease of access, gentle slope, spectacular scenery, and lack of vertigo inducing drops or cliffs. We were right, but somewhat miscalculated the […]
We still had Dent-de-Crolles (2062m), the second highest peak on the Chartreuse range, to summit. It is just twenty meters shy of the highest peak Chamechaude (2082m), which we have climbed four times. Both climbs start at the altitude of about 1400 meters, but this was a bit trickier, both […]
We took a couple of days off this week to savor the last few sunny and warm Fall days, and planned a couple of easy walks on those days. Earlier this week the local weather forecast promised a significant degradation in conditions this coming weekend, but it has all changed […]
Ut4M 40 Chartreuse, that is, a 42-kilometer mountain marathon with total ascent of 2540 meters and descent of 2610 meters. Two years ago we were not allowed to continue from the last check point, because we did not have lamps with us (the lamps were optional that year!). It was […]
Our easy and short recovery hike turned out quite differently from yesterday’s hike, besides being short and easy(sh). As soon as we got out of the car at the parking of Col-des-Ayes it started raining. The rain soon stopped and we had to peal off the rain jackets, since we […]
This was our first real recce for the upcoming ultra marathon that will take place in six weeks of time on the Chartreuse range. We took an early morning bus to St-Izmier and planned to climb to the first rest stop at Habert-de-Chamechaude and then down to Sappey-en-Chartreuse to catch […]
(April 22, 2017) We did an easy hike from Le-Sappey-en-Chartreuse (999m) to L’Écoutoux (1406m) with a total climb of 551 meters. We are half way in our marathon training schedule, so we did not want to push ourselves too much on the rest day, but wanted to enjoy the sunny […]