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Sunday, August 26th, 2007
It turns out that Thomas and Gabi will only be with us for one day of hiking, because (they say) they can't figure out how to get from Col du Croix du Bonhomme back to Chamonix on Wed AM in less than 7 hours. Personally I think Thomas just wants to get back to play tennis -- I caught him making a court reservation for Wed night :-).
Another lovely hike, down the Arve valley, up over a pass, then a descent to cross under the end of a glacier, up over another pass (going through a large area of blueberry bushes as we did so), and finally a descent to the Chalets de Miage, under another of the many glaciers descending from Mont Blanc, where we are staying for the night. The highpoint of the day was at around 2140m at the second pass where a number of very friendly, and apparently salt-deficient, sheep tried to lick us and out backpacks. Not even fairly hard pushing dissuaded them. We have some neat pictures....
The refuge is full tonight, so we dosed ourselves with a couple of liters of wine, popped in earplugs, and are now chatting (odd that this is possible with earplugs) with an English couple doing the Tour du Mont Blanc. Russell just rolled over and over down the row of beds, somewhat to the detriment of Sally, Gabi, and Thomas who were in the way.
Now they are singing songs.
Despite us all being in bed at 9:05, it doesn't look like it is going to be an early night....
