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4th March 2015 Hiking - Walking: Mijoux-France Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny periods Max Speed: Distance Covered: Wednesday 4th March – Hike (snow shoe) **** Mijoux - sunny periods We were surprised to wake to 2” of snow! We had a leisurely start and had a lay in reading. Mag walked to the shop in the village to get some bread. We had breakfast and read for a bit longer then got all our snow shoe gear out of the top box. We set out across the piste into the village then out onto the fields beyond. There is a pisted footpath which we followed for a little while and we really didn’t need the snow shoes at the beginning but put them on rather than carry them. We decided to carry on past the turning point of the pisted footpath and followed the cross country piste for a while. You are not supposed to walk on these tracks but there were many other footprints so we didn’t feel too bad! When we crossed over a bridge we noticed some snow shoe prints walking back towards Mijoux across the fields on the other side of the river so we followed them (ignoring the Prive sign!). The person or people who had made them knew where they were going because the path snaked up and back across the fields up quite a steep hill before disappearing through the woods. The weather was a mixed bag with cloud and blue sky and even a light snow shower. We were really pleased to hear a cry above us and looked up to see a beautiful Eagle soaring in the blue sky with snow falling at the same time! We have no idea what kind of eagle it was but it was far too big for a buzzard. We stopped on a steep bank to eat our picnic and watched several small birds crossing from tree to tree – no idea what they were either!! Back down the sloping field towards the river and even through the river at some points, still following the other shoe prints. We came back to the pisted footpath and watched some cross country skiers making the same mistakes we did on a downhill stretch – stopping by falling over! We followed the path up to the ski lifts at the beginning of the village and then made our way back up to the van. We had been out nearly 4 hours and were amazed we had only walked just on four miles because we were shattered!! Had just taken our boots off and got in the van when the most amazing blizzard started! You had to feel for the people on the chair lift and on the piste! We were very lucky not to be caught out in it and spent the rest of the afternoon reading, drinking hot drinks, and eating French bread, butter and apricot jam and then chocolate!! photo gallery here |
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