Our adventures around Europe
Highlights include our recent Napoleon Cycling Adventure, skiing in Switzerland, hiking around Europe, French Language Immersion School and of course the Tour de France.
Albania Croatia Estonia France Germany Greece Italy Latvia Lithuania Malta Monaco Montenegro Scotland Spain Switzerland United Kingdom
Moiry hut
The Cabane de Moiry is an old traditional hut resting at 9200 feet with a spacious, warm, contemporary add-on highlighted by two full walls of floor-to-ceiling windows looking directly onto…
cabane Prafleuri to Arolla… ahhhh…
We hightailed it out of Prafleuri early and were treated to a lovely morning hike along the Dixence reservoir (after climbing up to Col des Roux). This milky-green lake is…
One man’s yuck is another man’s treasure
I noted in my brief Haute Route update a few days ago that we did a ‘Yucky’ hike on Tuesday from cabane Louvie to cabane Prafleuri, but more than one…
The Haute Route
The Haute Route, (or the High Route or Mountaineers’ Route) is the name given to a route (with several variations) undertaken on foot or by ski touring between Chamonix, France…
Quick Haute Route Update
We have Internet and phone service for the first time in a few days; we were pretty remote on the first couple days of our Haute Route adventure. We are…
Hotel du Col de la Forclaz
This wasn’t our favorite place to stay, but it was a hopping spot for all sorts of activities, so we sat in the afternoon sun and people watched.
The hike of many names, Friday, 30 Aug
Our hike from la Fouly to Champex, Switzerland turned out to be about 5 hikes rolled into one. It started with a pleasant shady stroll down-valley where we watched the…