Just a Little Walk

Last year we lunched at Lac de Gaube, and I remember thinking at the time that it's a pity we couldn't walk up to the foot of the glacier.

When we were at home planning this trip I discovered that you could, in fact, walk to a refuge near the base of the glacier, and what's more it's only two and a half hours up. And two hours back. Plus, it's an easy walk.

Well....

The view from the refuge is spectacular,

 

the view as you walk up to the refuge (hidden to the right of the waterfall) is spectacular,

and the path is... that jumble of rocks in the foreground.

We started at about 11am, we were up at the refuge by 3pm (where we scored lunch), and we were back at the start by 9pm, having missed the last chairlift down the last bit of hill by only two hours and having to walk an extra 4km. In all we covered about 18km, much of it rock hopping. On the way up we gained 425 metres in altitude, and on the way down we dropped 692 metres.

There will be a more comprehensive report at some stage, no doubt, but I'm off to bed. (This was written last night, on the grounds that I may not ever be able to stand up again.)