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Fall holidays (1)
As Emile is on vacation with me for a week, we decide to go enjoying the fall colors without traveling too far since we only have 5 days to travel. The destination will be the Hautes-Alpes, between France and Italy.
1. After half a day on the road, we arrive in the Mont-Cenis region and its lake at the end of the day.
2. While the weather is fine all along the road, the east wind blows fog from Italy which gradually rises, enveloping VivaLaVida.
3. Climbing up to 2,200 m, we have time to make a shot hike outside the nimbuses.
4. But half an hour later, the fog catches up with us.
5. The time to find a boondocking site for the night and we are isolated by the clouds for a quiet but cool night.
6. The disturbance of the night removed the fog and nicely sprinkled summits with fresh snow.
7. A few openings in the couds let in the light…
8. … and VLV takes the trail again to reach the lake.
9. We take the trail that goes West of the lake…
10. … trail that we couldn’t drive in July, a barrier now blocking access from July 1st to September 15.
11. The showers follow one another and the wind is still blowing strong.
12. But we anyway go for a walk by the lake, just to play with Emile and, for me, to look for some picture composition.
13. …
The continuation of the story in a few days…
On the left bank of the Colorado…
Near the end of the White Rim, I hiked to Fort Bottom, in the middle of a meander of the Green River.
1. Remains the “cabin” on a river bank. It is almost 200 years old and housed tuberculosis patients who were sent here to end their days…
2. Build details.
3. On the hill in the middle of one meander of the river, there is this double round tower.
4. Here it’s it closer. This is an Indian building dating back to about 1200. We do not know its function.
5. I sneaks myself inside, being careful not to shake the fragile ruins.
6. The floor of the main tower don’t exist anymore…
7. While I go back to VivaLaVida, curious clouds catch me up.
8. But I get some nice light over the river.
9. Fred, we need your geologist knowledge! 😉 In some areas, there were many stones like this, with a slightly chalky appearance on the outside but inside glassy, that really made me think of red flint including white crystals in zones, almost translucent sometimes. Do you know what it is?
10. Amazing atmosphere of the surrounding cliffs. But no drop will reach the ground…
11. Vivalavida coming out of the White Rim trail the next day by a gray sky, with a final passage a little “tricky” for her size.
I then went to sleep to Hurrah Pass I reached at night, to go to discover a Colorado viewpoint in the morning.
12. Unbelievable! At dawn, he was there, the famous troll I had already thought to glimpse, sitting cross-legged and watching his top spining…! 😀
13. A quite hard path of the trail with a nice step.
14. It’s quite high, isn’t it!
15. But nothing to stop VLV which is already on the next one!
16. The viewpoint was gorgious…
17. … on both sides.
18. Him, it is probably not a troll, but he seemed to look VLV passing, as a kind of alien looking an insect ahead… 😉
That’s it for today. More to come soon…
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