174 km · ↑ 10 539 m · 6 days · July 2024 · FR
GR 58, or the Tour du Queyras, crosses the regional nature park of Queyras. What started as a random backup plan turned into some of the best hiking of the whole trip.
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Bivacco Giorno Casalegno – Refuge des Fonts de Cervières 15.7.2024 Monday → 27,2 km ↑ 1449 m – total 204,1 km Alarm is set for 6:30am again. The sun starts to rise slowly over the horizon. It’s English Monday, the day we speak English together, something we started at New Year. Breakfast is bread with…
Refuge des Fonts de Cervières – Refuge de Furfande 16.7.2024 Tuesday → 28,6 km ↑ 1682 m – total 232,7 km Alarm’s at 6:15am. I sleep really well tonight. Even though I went to bed at 11pm, getting up feels easy. Breakfast is baguette with eggs and pâté. We haven’t had such a hearty breakfast…
Refuge de Furfande – Col Girardin 17.7.2024 Wednesday → 32,7 km ↑ 2171 m – total 265,4 km Alarm’s at 6:15am again, but I really don’t want to get up today. I feel very tired. It’s 1°C outside with frost on the grass. I stay warm in the sleeping bag as long as I can….
Col Girardin – Ceillac 18.7.2024 Thursday → 34,4 km ↑ 2096 m – total 299,8 km Alarm’s at 6:15am. We don’t want to get up. We hear sheep coming closer. At 6:30am I open the tent door — the sheep are about 300 m away. There’s a dog on the edge of the flock that…
Ceillac – Rocher des Marrous 19.7.2024 Friday → 22,2 km ↑ 1697 m – total 322 km We sleep in, until about 8:30am. It served me well. We’re in no rush, having tea with Pierre and chatting about gear with two fifty-something guys doing the GR 5 (a 650 km route from Geneva to Nice)….
Rocher des Marrous – Bobbio Pellice 20.7.2024 Saturday → 29,3 km ↑ 1444 m – total 351,3 km Alarm’s at 6:30am, and it’s 0°C outside. We push it back a while. I don’t feel great. My stomach hurts, and I feel like the last day of the SNP trail (back then I threw up and…
Coming home 21.7.2024 Sunday On our last day we get up around 8:30am. We go for “breakfast,” which was included in the price — we get coffee and a croissant, better than nothing. Check-out is at noon, so we lounge in bed while I update the blog. We head for the train at 11am, since…
It didn’t go at all the way we’d pictured it — and that’s exactly the charm of it. The original plan was the Tour de Monte Rosa loop, which is usually possible to walk through in July, including a stretch that crosses a glacier. This year’s heavy precipitation, whether rain or snow (it was still…