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22nd March 2016 Hiking - Walking: Lac Vallon Wind Direction: Wind Stength: Surf / Sea State: Air Temperature: Sea Temperature: Weather: sunny Max Speed: Distance Covered: Tuesday 22nd March – Relax, travel & hike **** sunny – Lac Vallon Woke to yet another sunny still day, will this lovely weather ever end? hope not :) Not skiing here at Praz today after yesterday’s epic 50-mile day! So had relaxing start before packing up the van and heading down. The resort was very quiet yet again apart from the cross country pistes lower down where loads of kids were having fun on the learner track – school was never that good for me!!! The lower we got the more cloud there was and the sun completely disappeared! On the out skirts of Taninges we really did have a near death incident when some French tosser decided to overtake a line of slow traffic uphill and we nearly had a head on!!! At least I found out the hooter works, the French are such impatient drivers:( With our heart rate nearly back to normal we found a small supermarket to stock up on goodies including a lovely big box of vibrant red Spanish strawberries in a wooden box and four chocolate eggs in an egg box with a small spoon to eat the soft nutty centre, well it is nearly Easter:) Just past the Sommand turn off we found a small road which lead to Megevette along a beautiful alpine valley, past lacs and grazing cows with buzzards in the trees, even if it was a bit smelly as all the farmers had spread cow manure on their fields! It was then only a short way to the dead end road that leads to another one of our favourites Le Chevrerie:) We had a quick look at the ski runs at the end as we will ski tomorrow if the weather is good before returning to one of the best spots in France our parking spot by Lac Vallon overlooking the fairy tale chapelle St. Bruno:) We spent a relaxing couple of hours having lunch, watching a fine display by mistle thrushes and chaffinches rummaging in the grass, reading and watching the walkers stroll by before donning our walking boots and going for a stroll. Even though the sun was out the wind had picked up so we wrapped up and set off toward the chapelle crossing the mountain stream over a couple of footbridges. We had a look inside which was nice apart from a carving of the Virgin Mary which looked like it was done by a five-year-old – a bit scary! It was then along the far side of the mostly frozen Lac in the shade but we were sheltered from the wind and got too hot and in the end the coats had to come off! At the far end of the Lac you crossed a bridge where the stream continued down the valley and the followed a path right by the water’s edge. One disappointing thing, when we were here last time you could make the frozen Lac ‘sing’ by throwing stones on the ice but sadly this time it didn’t work:( The path then followed back to the van where we had a cuppa, bread and jam, read until the sun disappeared before driving back up to the ski lift car park for a good start tomorrow. We had left over lasagne while listening to the mountain stream watching the piste bashers start their night’s work! Photo Gallery here |
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