351 km · ↑ 23 000 m · 17 days · July 2024 · IT/FR
Snow wrecked our original plan (Tour de Monte Rosa), so we improvised a route through the Italian Alps all the way to the Tour du Queyras (GR 58) in France.
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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…