As the summer starts to come to a close, I have been asking Ryan to do some hikes with me while the weather is still good. I got my wish on Saturday as we headed to Chamonix to hike to Lac Blanc, an alpine lake that sits at around 2200 meters and has sweeping views of Mont Blanc and its neighboring glaciers in the background. The hike is well known by tourists and easily accessible. You take a cable car up to around 2200 meters and hike horizontally across to the lake. So we headed off to Chamonix excited for our day of hiking. But, there was a slight problem... our lazy butts slept in and dilly-dallied around the house for a few hours, so we didn't get to Chamonix until around 2PM and the last cable car down from the hike left at 4:30PM = not enough time to do the entire round trip hike to the lake. Oops. We decided to still do the hike, but just go half way for fear of missing the last cable car down and being stranded in the mountainous terrain. Disappointing as that was, we still managed to get in some good hiking and saw some amazing scenery. I'm used to hiking in the white mountains of NH, so hiking above the tree line with rock fields, snow still on the trails, and 25 degree temperature differences to the valley below is super intimidating but it presents some unbelievably gorgeous sights at the same time. Ryan even went to the market before we left for Chamonix and got us a superb lunch of truffled ham, greek salad, and a fresh baguette that we enjoyed while overlooking the views. So in the end while we were disappointed that we didn't have time to check out the lake, it was a perfect Saturday excursion and we're excited to return one day (hopefully this fall) to check out the actual Lac Blanc!
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| Check out the glacial valley behind me, you can actually take a train up to this glacier and go through a tunnel into the glacier |
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| Don't lean left! |
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| Riding the chair lift down |
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| Mont Blanc is the tallest peak on the right |
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