My first week at home wasn’t really at home because I went around to catch up with friends !
After that, I rested a bit, and re-discovered the area and the local animals…
As it wasn’t enough to see all that and I was a bit frustrated to not really see the Mont Blanc, I decided to do something else, a bit bigger… (thanks to my aunty Claire who had the idea!) and to get my revenge…
So we went to Passy, next to Chamonix, a bit closer from the Mont Blanc (that you can even see from the highway, but it is not as beautiful as from higher…), and we started our hike.
We arrived at the Pormenaz Lake a bit later, after meeting cows in a little stream, some marmots in the rocks, and after ckimbing a funny – steep part with ladders and chains.
As our legs could keep walking/climbing, and as there was no view of the Mont Blanc, we decided to keep going to the col d’Anternes, which is 2257 meters high, after a break with water and biscuits and dried fruits 🙂
We crossed a kind of a plain, to arrive at the cottage of the area, that you can stay overnight if you do for example the GR5, long track around the Mont Blanc !
And we started climbing again…
We stopped to look a other marmots playing in the grass and holes in the ground… and we also stopped for a while to watch some bouquetins in the cliff. It sounded a bit weird, probably a baby one was scared or stuck somewhere in the middle of the cliff… 🙁
And after a few minutes, some crows where flying in rounds above the cliff, they probably heard the one “crying” because he was stuck or so, and they were just waiting that he falls to have a fresh lunch !
All along the way up, the track was open on the valley, and everytime the Mont Blanc was a bit more visible…
We stopped a few times to contemplate this huge white mount 🙂
And eventually, on the top !! : a ridge of few meters wide, 2257 meters high, to have a great view from both sides…
Do we go down to the lake to have lunch there ? yea… we are not here for nothing 😉 20 minutes later we finally reached the lake (Lac d’Anterne). It is the biggest mountain lake of the area !
We also met some sheeps on the way down, definitly not as much as in New Zealand, but still sheeps 😉
And the last view before we went down to the car park, after 7 hours spent in the mountain…
Next step, after I got rid of my nasty cold, I will get ready to leave Thursday next week (27th) !!
