Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
This morning we got to sleep in for the first time all trip. I slept so nice until I heard someone knocking on our door. We went promptly up to the room our parents were sleeping in and were welcomed by an assortments of different croissants, bread, yogurt, and fruit. This was probably one of […]
Read More “Rest day”“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 CourtmayeurToday basically started last night because I did not sleep at all. The bunks creaked whenever someone moved an inch the entire bunk bed would creak, there was thunderstorms all night, and it was a very uncomfortable bed. We woke up to lighting and thunder. We quickly ate the provided breakfast which was so unappetizing […]
Read More Hail.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 ElisabettaThings finally started getting interesting on the trail today. Days 1 and 2 were pretty typical hiking days for me. They were beautiful and they were steps toward the much bigger goal. Today was that as well, but it was also more of the adventure I was hoping for. We all slept poorly last night. […]
Read More TMB Phase 3Today was once again a good eats day. It did start bad though. The breakfast that was provided to us was not good it was a yogurt and cereal and the yogurt was not good. Very sour. I did eat some bread though. A but into our hike we stopped and got some food and […]
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