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25th March 2012 Hiking - Walking: Chamrousse Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: Sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Sunday 25th Mar.2012 – Walking **** and open air swimming – sunny and warm We slept really well but both had cold heads this morning! We are going to lay the fluffy fleece over the pillows tonight. The diesel heater soon had the van up to nearly 30 degrees and we were too hot! We decided to stay in Chamrousse another day because it is so nice here and we fancied another walk and another swim. We had a leisurely start, ate our muesli and fruit sitting in the sun on the bank next to the van watching the skiers go overhead on the lift. The clocks have gone forward an hour today so it seemed really early when the first lot went up! We were watching people arrive at the bottom of the piste in a strange variety of clothes and skiing styles! There are a lot of beginners here and you do feel for them, especially coming over the bridge! We walked to the shop and got some bread and round the one way system then had lunch in a similar fashion to breakfast – people watching. At 2 we went and did over 40 lengths in the pool. We even did 4 of them with the pool to ourselves! We then sat in the sun on the sun loungers and read our books :) Had a quick cuppa watching the stragglers come down from the last lifts then set out about 5 on another mountain hike. We decided to follow the green (we found this didn’t mean easy!!!) nature path down to the Nordic skiing centre and up into the mountain. It was quite a treacherous path actually and our legs kept disappearing down into soft snow even on the path! Snow shoes and poles are required; I see another visit to eBay when we get home :) It was very beautiful though and at one point you could see down into the next valley – a sheer drop! The path then came down very steeply onto the Nordic ski area (where you are not supposed to walk) and Mag’s leg went down right to her hip and she could not get her leg out! Whatever she did made it worse – just like quick sand. Her boot was wedged completely :( and I had to come back up and chip away the snow around her boot with the leg of my tripod and she was finally was freed! It was quite scary for her actually :( We then got a bit lost because the path was getting worse and the only way to avoid it was to walk round the freshly pisted Nordic cross country ski path. We had no choice really so did that for a while and then found the path back. Lots of birds about at this point so watched them for a while. By this time our feet were squelching in our boots and were freezing :( Got back to the van and Mag put her feet on hot water bottle and they soon warmed up. Had a picky tea – what was left in the fridge basically because we were starving! Were entertained during tea and evening by the piste bashers mending the piste on the bridge right next to us. Very interesting to see them bring down huge piles of snow from somewhere and make a massive stack before spreading it all over the wider piste at the bottom near the lift which is getting a bit patchy. A great day – we are exhausted!!! Monday 26th Mar.2012 – travelling and walking – warm and sunny :) Top night in the cold, fleecy pillow cover worked a treat :) As yesterday watched ski life above Chamrousse 1700 while having breakfast. A ski instructor took his ski off to adjust binding on the lift and it fell off in car park near our van!!! I picked it up and took it to the lift – he had broken the tip :( Packed the van up and headed off at about midday, sent first postcards from Chamrousse 1650, the mountain road down was lovely. Took the picturesque road towards Gap, stopped at Lac de Laffrey for lunch, did a big shop at Casino in la Mure arriving at Corps at about 5 and parked at the Nautique Centre on the banks of the nearly empty Lac du Sautet and decided to stay the night. Had a cuppa and cake and laid in the sun for an hour reading – so’ooooooooooooooooo warm :) Then at 6:30 went for a walk up and down the Lac as the sun was setting over the mountains, even with no water the Lac is pretty and surrounded by snowy mountains and the banks are covered in wood washed down from the mountains worn really smooth. Then back to the van for reduced price burgers and tarteflette and a delicious beer – called ‘Force 4’ - that’s why I bought it made by Kronenbourg. http://www.facebook.com/#!/media/set/?set=a.3129837677540.2137243.101266056 2&type=1 |
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