We 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: Lyon

The 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 Houches

Today 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 (!?!)

Today 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

Today was a hard one for me. The hardest of the hike. The milage and elevation was on par with our other average days, but I really struggled mentally, causing the physical work to be really hard. The hotel provided an awesome breakfast which was the fuel I definitely needed. After breakfast we packed up […]

Read More Day 11: Champex-Lac to Trient

Day seven of hiking. We’ve been doing this day after day for a week now, averaging about 10 miles a day and the equivalent of a legit mountain hike daily. One whole week. Today was so much relaxing than yesterday and we all enjoyed it. We woke (along with our three random roommates) to a […]

Read More Day 10: La Fouly to Champex Lac

We did it. The hardest day of our trek. 18.43 miles and 4,716 feet of gain. Those numbers are according to my phone which continues to outperform Zak’s. But if the phone was attached to me, then that’s what I’m going with. Maybe I was spirographing the whole time? Regardless, it was a heck of […]

Read More Day 9: Rufugio Bertone to La Fouly

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 Bertone

After 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

Day 3 of the hike! An “easy” day, at least on paper. 9.1 miles and just over 4,000 feet in gain and 1,300 in loss. Legit, but much easier than the last two days. But then there’s the reality that nothing is easy on the TMB, even the, much needed “rest” days. I was awoken […]

Read More Day 6: Les Contamines to Refugio Elisabetta