16.7.2023 Sunday Cabane du Jas Lacroix – Camp Les Bouleaux → 37,8 km ↑ 2289 m ↓ 2956 m Alarm’s at 5:30am, but we really don’t feel like getting up, so we just lie there. At 6am we start packing, eating breakfast and drinking coffee. We set off at 6:42am. We’re getting better at this….
15.7.2023 Saturday Le Monêtier-les-Bains – Cabane du Jas Lacroix → 32,98 km ↑ 1633 m ↓ 1410 m I wrote the blog until half past 11pm last night, so I don’t get up until seven today. Jozef’s already made coffee and waits for me with breakfast, baguette with cheese. Just as the sun starts peeking…
14.7.2023 Friday Lac Noir – Le Monêtier-les-Bains → 44,37 km ↑ 1507 m ↓ 2329 m We went out to photograph the stars last night. I haven’t seen stars that bright in a long time. There was strong storm far off in the distance. Alarm was set for 5:30, but we don’t get up until…
13.7.2023 Thursday Le Bourg d’Oisans – Lac Noir → 33,95 km ↑ 2792 m ↓ 1083 m Alarm’s at 5:30. I look out of the tent and see low clouds overhead, so we don’t feel like getting out. Jozef makes coffee and breakfast — chocolate oat porridge for me, and a homemade savory rice porridge…
12.7.2023 Wednesday We already arrived in Kraków yesterday, we used a ferry too. We left our car at our friends’ place in the garden, and in the evening we went with them to a Czech restaurant for a beer. Jozef paid by card and by mistake tapped payment in EUR instead of PLN. This one-centimeter…
or Tour de l’Oisans et Écrins This is a 195 km long-distance route through the Dauphiné Alps, around the Écrins massif. It has about 12,800 m of elevation gain. We plan the trip for 8 days. Our backpacks weigh 5.6 kg and 6.1 kg at base weight (no food, no water), which is a good…
6.5.2023 Saturday Strathchailleach bothy – Cape Wrath lighthouse 11 km – 350 m ↑ – 386 km total A night spent in a bothy is a pleasant change. I slept like a baby. In the morning the wind’s finally died down outside of the bothy and it’s warm. I take my time with breakfast, plenty…
5.5.2023 Friday Loch na Seilge – Sandwood bay 35 km – 900 m ↑ – 375 km total I don’t sleep at all during the night, the wind’s howling terribly and I keep waking up. Around five it shifts direction a bit and it looks like it is going to tear the tent apart and…
4.5.2023 Thursday Inchnadamph – Loch na Seilge 40 km – 2250 m ↑ – 340 km total A proper windstorm’s blowing since morning, was rough at night too. The tent walls kept pressing against my sleeping bag, which got a bit damp because of it. I pack up the tent and head off before eight…
3.5.2023 Wednesday Schoolhouse bothy – Inchnadamph 40 km – 800 m ↑ – 300 km total I really don’t feel like it this morning, waking up pretty stiff and beat up. After breakfast I set off after eight. Today’s first stretch is toward Oykel Bridge, about 6 km of regular farm road. From Oykel Bridge…