Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
“Crushing it, we’re crushing it. Hiking up a mountain and we’re crushing it.” Was both the song and theme of the day. In theory today was our rest day, and compared to the last four it was easy. Just 2.5 miles and 2,200 ft up. It turned out to be a very steep climb though, […]
Read More TMB Stage 5Its 930 and we are leaving at 530 tomorrow so its bed time but here is a brief summary of the food today. Breakfast we got from our hotel. It had croissants, eggs, toast, jams, and some other stuff I don’t remember. Then for lunch we got 3 pizzas to share before our hike. I […]
Read More Day 8( I think)Rest day!!!! Most people doing this hike take one or two rest days and we are (kind of) doing the same. While planning the trip Zak and I didn’t see the point in a day with no milage gain, knowing we’d spend the day walking around the town we were in. To us, it made […]
Read More Day 8: Courtmayeur to Rufugio BertoneBefore getting to today’s hike I think dinner last night deserves a small description. We were seated at a table with a young couple from Lithuania and a young single guy from Virginia who now lives in Dubai. The first course was a delicious risotto served from a giant pot rolled from table to table […]
Read More TMB Stage 4After posting last night we went to dinner and we’re seated with three others, a guy from North Carolina who lives in Dubai and a couple from Lithuania. It was lovely getting to know them over the best risotto (they just called it rice, but it was so much more than rice), roasted pork, green […]
Read More Day 7: Rufugio Elisabetta to Courtmayeur