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Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007
Our plan to avoid the bad weather worked perfectly: no rain today! We started in fog and ended under clouds, but in between it was sunny and even a little warm in places. The fine weather also allowed us to savour the excellent views... in between vigorous bouts of hiking. This is the first day for a while that there were just the three of us, and I must confess that we didn't exactly amble. The result: 7.5 hours of fairly intense hiking with 1830m of climbing. I feel quite weak at the moment :-).
Perhaps in consequence, the inspirational well seems a little dry. What else is there to say about today? Well, we passed three donkeys serving as pack animals for a group of two or three English families. We had excellent crepes for lunch. We saw a couple of beautiful waterfalls. We couldn't see Mont Blanc from the Col d'Anterne because it was cloudy. We walked through a neat gorge between Samoens and Sixt. We have a little bunkroom to ourselves tonight. Russell's boots seem to be better for him than his previous pair. Tomorrow's weather is supposed to be similar to today's. I passed up an opportunity to have fondue for dinner tonight for perhaps the first time in three weeks (grin). Sally looks funny in her pink knitted hat (double grin), but still hikes faster uphill than I can (grin disappears :-).
And congratulations to Rochelle and Marcus on the birth of their son, Max!!
And I don't think I'll make it past 9PM tonight....
