Are we there yet? Also known as Part Deux of an undisclosed amount of posts concerning our hike to Reculet...

As we were getting close to the Narderans it seemed to my unexperienced hiker self that we were close to the ridge, because the top didn't seem very far above us...and then we walked around the corner and realized this...


...the Narderans is, for my intents and purposes, a valley...in the middle of the mountains...at 1330 meters in altitude...


...and see that big rock/cliff looking thing high HIGH HIGH above Dan? That's where we need to go. Well, actually further, because Reculet is still higher than that...but I digress...


...first, Le Narderans...


[Alpine cows...]


[The trail...]


[Cows...on the trail...with Dan and I...no fence...just hanging out...chewing cudd...]


[Cows still on the trail...]


[So sorry to disturb your dejuener...]


[Swoon.]




[Looking down...]


[Looking up...]







[So that cliff behind Dan...made it!]





[This one's for you Caos - this is where they hide the bodies...]



Oh snap, what's that in the distance...next RECULET.

Are we there yet? Also known as Part 1 of an undisclosed denomination of postings concerning our hike to Le Reculet...

This past Saturday (July 31, 2010), Dan and I took a great step in our duty of being good french residents: we hiked to Le Reculet. It took us about 5.5 hours there and back from Tiocan to Reculet, with a 20 minute snack break in Le Narderans and a 50 minute lunch and picture break at Reculet. This will surely take me several postings to really share our hike with you, and even though the pictures don't do the mountains or overlooking views any justice, they're still beautiful. These pictures essentially start just before we hit La croisée, which took us aout 45 minutes to hike up to from Le Tiocan, and is about a third of the way to Le Reculet. All of this hike took place in the Jura Mountains in Thoiry, France...



[Lake Geneva off in the distance...]


[Trail leading up to Le croisée...]




[Looking out over Val Thoiry, Thoiry, St. Genis, Meyrin, and Geneva...]



[Look straight at the clouds, the whitest part at the top is actually Mont Blanc...]


[Past Le croisée, en route to Le Narderans...]



[These rocks? Yeah that's the trail...]




[Where's Honey?]






["Holy shit that's a lot of trees!"]


[And the trail continues upwards...]






[A brief moment of flatness on the trail...]


[Looking rather smug...]


Next stop, Narderans, 1330 meters...