Our Adventures Through City and Backcountry
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-ChampToday started with a breakfast buffet from our hotel. I had Nutella toast again. Nutella is a very big thing here. I also had my first hot coco of the day. A bit into our hike we stopped at a little restaurant. I got a fruit cake and another hot coco. It was poring rain […]
Read More Day 9I mentioned yesterday that I didn’t know if this much hiking was making me stronger or just more tired. I still don’t know, but both feelings are even more intense after today’s 11 miles. I don’t remember the elevation stats and I’m too tired to look them up, but I think it was pretty close […]
Read More TMB Stage 8Today 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 TrientCrazy that we’re already a week into this adventure. It seems like just yesterday we were in Les Houches taking pictures at the starting gate. If all goes according to plan we’ll be back there again in just four more days, this marathon seems to be flying by. We woke up this morning to the […]
Read More TMB Stage 7Day 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 LacWHEW! We made it! Today was by far the longest hike of the TMB for us. 16 mfing miles while hiking over 3,500 feet up and over 4,500 feet down (that’s right, nearly a mile down). From the time we booked this trip we knew that today was going to be the hardest. We’d planned […]
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