A long days walk.....
After doing my warming up exercises for the GR20 at the weekend with Sally. I thought it might be interesting to have another look at my GR5 walk last year.
Day 7 was one of my longer days. I left the excellent Chalet de Nant Borrant (1460m) at 07.45. By 10.43 I was atop Col de la Croix-du-Bonhomme (2483m). I negotiated the very narrow path
on Crete des Gittes and arrived at Refuge du Plan de la Laie (1815m) which was going to my finish at 12.28.
Since it was a pleasant day and still so early, I thought, I would do the next day as well. The thunder clouds were forming as I arrived pretty exhausted, after all the bouldering,
on the Col de Bresson (2469m) at 16.37.
I raced down the other side to arrive luckily at the Chalet de la Balme
(2009m) at 17.10, just before the storm broke. A lucky escape.
Total ascent was 2193m and descent 1683m in a 23.4km route. according to memory map.
Here is the route plotted in google earth:-
Day 7 was one of my longer days. I left the excellent Chalet de Nant Borrant (1460m) at 07.45. By 10.43 I was atop Col de la Croix-du-Bonhomme (2483m). I negotiated the very narrow path
on Crete des Gittes and arrived at Refuge du Plan de la Laie (1815m) which was going to my finish at 12.28.Since it was a pleasant day and still so early, I thought, I would do the next day as well. The thunder clouds were forming as I arrived pretty exhausted, after all the bouldering,
on the Col de Bresson (2469m) at 16.37.I raced down the other side to arrive luckily at the Chalet de la Balme
(2009m) at 17.10, just before the storm broke. A lucky escape.
Total ascent was 2193m and descent 1683m in a 23.4km route. according to memory map.Here is the route plotted in google earth:-
Labels: GR5 Day7
