Let us see if this past weekend was what is left of the Summer in the French Alps. This week is expected to bring a lot of rain and temperature drop of 15° Celsius, even snow below 1000m of altitude! What a Summer it has been! The whole corona virus […]
This past Pentecost holiday weekend we headed to Southern Vercors in Gresse-en-Vercors for an easy hike, to recover from the previous day’s bicycle season opener. We missed the parking lot at Col de l’Allimas (1352m), and then drove all the way to La Bâtie (~1170m), and started walking from there. […]
The snow situation near here has been quite poor this winter, so we booked our last week of winter vacation in Les Saisies, Savoie department, which has been much more fortunate with snow. Today our plans received a major blow as following the prime minister’s speech yesterday, the ski resorts […]
It has been snowing on the mountains recently. Even if the official start of the winter season is about one month away at most of the ski resorts, Autrans on the Vercors declared on Friday that they will open the Nordic skiing tracks for the weekend. We had already decided […]
This past weekend was expected to be one of the last, if not the last one, with good, almost Summer-like weather: plenty of sunshine and warm daytime temperatures. So, we planned a hike in South-western Vercors on Sunday. This was a hike we’ve thought about for a while, since we […]
We have been fortunate to have had wonderful weather most of this Summer and the beginning of the Fall, and when it has been not so good it has happened during the weekdays, and weekends have been nice. And so it was again this past weekend. We dedicated Saturday to […]
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 […]
We enjoyed the sunny and warm First of May hiking on the Vercors. This time our destination was a sightseeing platform Vertige des Cimes that extends a few meters over the edge of the mountain with about 300 meters drop below. It is an easy hike away from the […]
We finished our Winter vacation testing our new snowshoes in Montagnes de Lans on Vercors. We were quite happily surprised that there was still so much snow, although not perfect for snowshoeing. We walked to Combe Oursière and back, total of 6.3 kilometers with the ascent (and descent) of 263 […]