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1st October 2015 Hiking - Walking: Plateau de Buerre ridge walk, Rousset Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny but breezy Max Speed: Distance Covered: 4.3miles (Nautical Miles - unless stated otherwise) Thursday 1st October – hike ***** - sunny but breezy – Plateau de Buerre ridge walk, Rousset – 4.30 miles, 4.5hrs out. Nice day but chilly so we packed up before breakfast and drove the four miles through the tunnel and up the road through the ski station and up to the plateau de Beurre. We parked up in the big car park and had breakfast overlooking a new valley and I did my exercises. Mag had a day off! Packed our lunch and set off on a hike up through the trees and out onto the Plateau. We were up there yesterday but approached it from a different direction. This time we were on the left hand side of the plateau and as we walked up we were surprised to see a house with three goats sitting outside in the sun. It is right up where the skiing happens so whether they live there in the winter we don’t know! We ate our lunch right on the edge of the cliff, leaning against the cairn of rocks. The vultures gave us a fine display again and you always feel they have their beady eyes on you just to make sure you are still breathing!! They don’t flap their wings at all, just jump off the cliff ledges and glide. The only time they flex their wings is to lose height! We read our books and had a good rest in the sun. The wind is really quite strong and cold in places but we were out of it there and it was lovely. Carried on right on the edge of the cliffs until we met up with yesterday’s walk. At the chair lift we took the fork to the right and carried on down the piste to the ski car park. There are quite a few runs and even some free cross country up here so we are very keen to come back in March. Excellent walk, nearly as far as yesterday! We were out for 4 ½ hours. We had thought we would get back and move on but we decided we were too tired so relaxed back at the van and are staying here. We played first round of phase 10 this holiday and Mag won!! Photo Gallery Here Friday 2nd October – Shop,sightsee and littlewalk – cloudy and wet :( A rainy day today :( After breakfast we packed up and drove back down all the hairpin bends to Die hoping to get stamps for the postcards we wrote last Friday(!) and maybe find a McDonalds for some wifi as we are not missing any adventures in this weather! We parked on the outskirts of Die and walked in (it had stopped raining for a while:)) and found the Tourist information where a woman with a terrible cough gave us many leaflets. Unfortunately none of them were exactly what we wanted but never mind. We walked through the town and didn’t see the post office but got some stamps in a Tabac. We walked up and round the back of the ramparts but they were a little disappointing, just grey stone walls which may or may not be Roman. We did get a fine display of acrobatics from a red squirrel though:) Back to the van and a quick trip into Lidl and to fill up with diesel at the Intermarche. No McDonalds in sight. We then went back up the hairpins to the Col du Rousset for our lunch (Lidl cooked chicken on offer at under 3 euros!). We drove up the valley we could see from our parking place last night and saw a field of sheep being guarded by two of the white shaggy sheep dogs. Stopped for a quick look at the grottes which looked quite interesting but they are only open at weekends in the autumn. Carried on up through a heavily forested road to the cross country skiing area of Herbouilly. It is a very strange place all trees and plateau with nowhere to stop really. Followed a sign to the Chateau Julien which turned out to be a car park for a walk across the plateau to a table of orientation and belvedere. It was raining too much to get out when we first arrived but at around 6.30 we set off and were treated to a beautiful sky over the forest to a white cloud filled valley with further views over to where we were over the last few days and even over to La Scia at St. Pierre! With the weather we have had today you can’t believe you can see anything up there so it was a treat. Just as we were walking down the track a big deer was standing in the middle but shot off when he saw us:) No vultures today – too wet for soaring the cliffs! Saturday 3rd October – Relaxing start then wi-fi outside Villard Tourist Office + sightseeing – Foul, wet and windy :( Woke up to blue skies but slept late and by the time we did our exercises it had clouded over and was raining again. Another van had arrived after we went to bed and the young couple had a quick walk and disappeared back down the forest track. We had breakfast and soon followed them! Arrived at Villard de Lans which is a ski town below the forest. As it was lunchtime and chucking it down no shops were open but we put cagoules on and had a wander – not a bad place, with a few interesting shops. Got free wifi at the tourist information car park so were able to sit in the van and catch up with all the usual computer stuff. Got some leaflets and maps when they opened at 2. There is supposed to be a balloon festival here this weekend and it is such a shame the weather has let them down so badly:( We went for a ride up to the Le Balcon, Les Glovettes and Correncon en Vercors ski areas on the outskirts before returning to the town and parking in a quiet car park near where the balloons are due to launch tomorrow if the weather improves. There is a small stream running behind the van which may become quite noisy with all this rain! It teemed all evening while we ate tea, played cards, and read our books. |
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