Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
We’re solidly on Phase 2 of the trip now as I’m currently riding the TGV from Lyon to Paris. It took a little while to adjust from a life of hiking every day to exploring a city, but once we got in the groove I really enjoyed my time in Lyon. Zoe had insisted that […]
Read More LyonWe had such a wonderful time in Lyon. We ate incredible Lyonnaise food, scratched the surface of learning the Roman Empire history, and walked more than we did on some days of the TMB. We’re on a high speed train to Paris and I’m sitting backwards, so I’m going to let the pictures tell the […]
Read More Days 15-17: LyonWe did! We circumnavigated Mt. Blanc completely on foot! From the Les Houches gate through France, Italy, and Switzerland and right back to where we began in Les Houches! We crossed passes, climbed mountains, followed rivers, and even walked up some driveways along the way. I’m so proud of all of us for supporting and […]
Read More TMB Stage 11The final day of the hike. On paper this day looks rough, but I was so convinced that we would be totally conditioned and so anxious to finish that we’d fly right through it. I was wrong. The first cable car up the 5,000 feet to the trail wasn’t until 8:15, getting us back on […]
Read More Day 14: Chamonix to Les HouchesToday was the second to last day of hiking. Before breakfast we got to sleep in even if it was just for a few extra minutes it was one of the best mornings of the hike. Not being completely rushed was a real treat compared to what our mornings are normally like. Breakfast was amazing […]
Read More Day 12Today was definitely my favorite day of the hike so far. It started off with a late (7:30) wake up and delicious breakfast. I got toast with goat cheese and salmon. Blueberry jam and a mini pancake, and 2 bowls of fruit. It was delicious. While everyone else was finishing up getting ready I sat […]
Read More Favorite dayToday is definitely ending differently than we had planned, in fact very little of the day matches the spreadsheet that Zak has worked hours upon hours on for the past year. Our original plan had been to do a variation of the official trail and hike just 2.8 miles to the rufugio for the night. […]
Read More Day 13: Tre-le-Champ to Chamonix (!?!)Our original plan was for today to be mostly a rest day, but it decidedly was not. We realized yesterday that a couple tweaks to our route were needed. First, that the route we’d planned to walk to last night’s hotel and then up to Refugio Flegere would cause us to miss the ladder portion […]
Read More TMB Stage 10For a difficult day of hiking, this one turned out to be quite lovely. The stats were big today! 10 miles, 4,000 feet each of up and down. Thankfully I was feeling pretty good the entire time. It helped that we were moving at a good steady pace all day as well. Just fast enough […]
Read More TMB Stage 9Today was hard, so, so, so hard. But!! It was probably my favorite day of the trip this far! We started with a delightful breakfast at the rufugio then began the hike. A local cat escorted us the quarter mile out of town. At times it would run to catch up to us, yet it […]
Read More Day 12: Trient to Tre-le-Champ