We came over the cliff that we "scaled" (I scaled, Dan scrambled...), and just when I thought "Goddamn I need a break," we turned around and there it was. I gasped. And kind of screamed and giggled all at once in that exhausted sort of way of someone who has just scaled a cliff. I was so excited to see that big stinkin' cross. Hiking to Reculet has been a big goal of mine since we moved to France, despite having never hiked before, and I feel like it is a big rite of passage when living here in Thoiry...to get there on my second time hiking finally made me feel like a Thoiry-sian...warm fuzzy feelings all around...
[Happy hiker.]
[The cool kids hang out at 1719 meters...]
[Cool kids...]
[I'm a cool kid...]
[Of course Mont Blanc comes out to play in the background and my eyes are closed!]
[The view on the other side of the mountain...]
{View on our side of the mountain of Lake Geneva...]
[I'll take pictures of Mont Blanc where I can get it...]
[Lunch time at the second highest point in the Jura Mountains...]
[Couscous has never tasted so good...]
[I like to climb on things...]
[Good-bye Reculet...]
[Beginning our descent...]
[Our new French friends waving good-bye...]
[In order to see more of the Jura, we took an alternate route home, which meant I didn't have to scale down the cliff, and would get to see Thoiry-Devant...which is just an old shack looking house...woo-hoo...]
[Dude is straight up crazy...]
[Alpine cows and an alpine house...]
[Sinkhole/cave/where they hide the dead bodies...]
[Reculet in the distance...]
[Just after Thoiry Devant...]
[Home.]
And as if you haven't overdosed on Reculet pictures yet, here's a video from the top...
