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5th March 2014 Hiking - Walking: Cascades du Herisson Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Monday 3rd March - Travelling We left at 1.30 and drove to the shuttle in good time for our crossing. Got there at the perfect time and they had moved us to the next one due to reduced capacity!!! Still it was only half an hour later at 4.50. Good crossing then drove to Strepy Bracquegnies for our usual stopover at the Canal lift car park:( Tuesday 4th March – Travelling and short walk – dull and drizzly Had a good night and had a leisurely start. Some rats were playing in the bushes across the car park and although most would think yuk we thought they were quite sweet! Drove to the town and followed the signs to Ascenders 3 and 4. We hadn’t actually seen these before and parked up on the bridge and walked past the castle themed pump house and up the many steps beside the first ascender. The next section of canal had been emptied, walked along that and up the next ascender and to the bridge in the distance then back on the other side of the canal along a footpath. That was the nice bit of the day over and we then drove and drove and drove for 400 miles on motorways both free and toll. We headed to Poligny in the Jura and got there about 7. We saw a lit up cross on the hill above the town and decided to head for that in our usual fashion! We saw the signs of how to get up there and were amazed to see that it is called the Croix du Dan! Had to text our Dan about that! We parked up overlooking the whole of the lit up town of Poligny and couldn’t resist walking the 350m to the cross with our torch:( It was a beautiful sight with all the lights and the cross lit up too. Back to the van for sausage and mash and a well deserved rest. All that travelling is exhausting and we hate that bit when you have to get a lot of miles out of the way but it is worth it when you get down here. The worst bit was when I dental floss stuck in his teeth and we couldn’t get it out! Quite a while digging about with tweezers finally freed it but it did bleed:( Wednesday 5th March - ***** Walk to Cascades du Herisson – Very sunny Wonderful night’s sleep – at least 8 hours then had a lie in and read our books. It is a glorious day so even got to do our exercises outside as there was a perfectly placed piece of concrete the same size as our blanket right on the edge of the hill overlooking the wonderful view. The plaque just along from where we parked says that dinosaurs roamed on the plateau where the town now is – hence the Jura name! After breakfast we walked back to the cross to see the view in daylight. Nice but not as good as last night! We set out on the small country roads across the ‘premiere Plateau’ towards the Cirque de Ladoye. Beautiful scenery and the cirque was easy to find and had a viewing platform right next to the road which looked down into the valley with a pretty house and river. Carried on past several lakes until we got to the Cascades du Herisson which cover 3.5km up a gorge with many separate waterfalls along the way. We had lunch then walked 2.5km of them, as far as a ruined mill. The first waterfall is the biggest and is possibly the biggest we have seen. The others come at intervals along a very rough and scrambling walk - our favourite:) There are steps and walkways and bits of rope to help but it is still a hard climb! We were convinced that this is where we had been with the boys in 1997 on the way to Morzine. We had turned off the motorway in the dark in the hope of finding a small, cheap hotel and found it in the middle of nowhere but weren’t exactly sure where. The next morning we saw a sign to the cascades and followed it to the car park and spent a good couple of hours scrambling around the various waterfalls. It looks so similar we thought it must be the place. We were away from the van for 3 great hours. Had a cuppa and some cake then set off to find somewhere to stay the night. We drove back past the lakes and up around the top of the gorge above where the cascades are. When we reached the top we saw the sign to Bonlieu which is where I thought we could possibly have stayed 17 years ago and bingo – we found the hotel in the middle of the village – The Hotel Poutre – and the sign to the cascades on the little road running down beside it:) Drove to the Belvedere des Quatre Lacs (view of 4 lakes). We had only just said we hadn’t seen any snow yet when suddenly the road was covered with only two tyre tracks clear! We managed to get to the snowy car park and decided to stay here. It is wooded and very pretty with the snow. Walked to the view point which was very nice – of the 4 lakes!! |
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