Our short week of vacation with Emile begins with a rainy day. We make the road to the region of Bardonecchia where I hope to drive the Sommeiller trail that we had not been able to discover the past summer.
 
 
1. Rainy boondocking above Rochemolle.
 

 
 
2. The next morning, the clouds have disappeared and the sky is blue when we wake up.
 

 
 
3. Uphill to the Scarfiotti refuge.
 

 
 
4. Higher on the trail…
 

 
 
5. The surrounding mountains are gorgeous!
 

 
 
6. High altitude fall colors.
 

 
 
7. VivaLaVida on the trail, at already more than 8,200 feet above sea level.
 

 
 
8. Arrival at the end of the trail whose descent on the other side has never been built.
 

 
 
9. Round altitude (3,000 meters = 9,842 feet), the highest reached by VLV in Europe. As a reminder, she went over 13,000 feet in 2016, in Colorado…
 

 
 
10. The small lake which is just after the pass.
 

 
 
11. And the other side remained empty of trail. Only a footpath leads down to the Ambin Valley.
 

 
 
12. We are close to the first snow that fell a few days before…
 

 
 
13. View of the peaks of the Parc des Ecrins in the distance…
 

 
 
14. Descending back. We only passed two local motorbikes all day.
 

 
 
To be continued in a few days… 😉