Tuesday 20 July 2021
| Distance (km) | 9 kms | |||
| Distance (time) | 3.5 hrs | |||
| Climb / Descent | 780m / 90m | |||
| Hard / Soft surface | 20% / 80% | |||
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After yesterday's short walk to stretch the legs we will today do a first real walk. Still not a very long day, but at least with a decent amount of climbing. But since we want to immediately the day after want to continue to Tignes we will first have to get the car there and so it will also be the first day we have to put the alarm. And so the alarm goes off at 6am after which we do the usual necessities like breakfast in order to drive off the camping at 7am. We had to get down the mountain to Landry, then follow the valley to Bourg-Saint-Maurice and then go up the mountain again to Tignes. It's still early and thus quiet, but nevertheless it's a long drive and so at 8:15am we enter Tignes-le-Lac. The bus stop is in front of the tourist office and the parking is underneath the tourist office (and for free in summer) so it's all nice and convenient. At 8:45 we catch the bus back to Bourg-Saint-Maurice where we have a whole 14 minutes to get the train to Landry, a wooping 6 minutes train ride. But finally at 10:20 we're at the railway station of Landry where we ended last year. And it's equally warm as last year... First we have to walk back to the main road and then follow it up through the village. We make a short loop in between the houses before climbing steeply to the church. And after the church it just keeps going up. The first day, warm and then this steep...we need lots of short breaks to get respiration and heart beat back to normal. For over 2.5 kms it is steep when it suddenly flattens after which we actually have an easy walk to Villaret, that seemlessly becomes Peisey. Because of the the warmth we decide to have a drink on the terrace of an hotel we pass. And now we're seated maybe lunch is not a bad idea either? We have time and so we decide to order 2 pizzas. Not a bad choice: they're tasty and they're big. In the meantime some more walkers joined the terrace, all French. A discussion forms as they all walk the GR5 and information is exchanged....between the French: we're being totally ignored. Fine with us, but a bit strange that they assume that we as tourist cannot be GR5 walkers. But from the conversation I understand they will all walk to Rosuel today and continue to Tignes tomorrow. So when we get up to continue I wish them a happy walk and who knows, see you in Tignes tomorrow. They react in surprise that I followed their conversation and that we're walking the GR5. Right. The break did good|: we now walk at ease to Le Moulin (ok, it's flat) but also the piece after Le Moulin that climbs significantly along the river Ponturin. And so we reach the camping site faster than we thought and the day is over. A difficult start with a hopeful end of the day. |
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