Day 6 Trekking Arp Nouvea to Champex-Lac 9 Miles, 2500 ft Ascending, 3300 ft Descending If I had a Powerade and a Magnum bar right now, I could rule the world. Much to my dismay, only one is available and probably not the one that’s best for me in my current state of heat exhaustion …
Day 5 Trekking Courmayeur to Arp Nouvea 11 Miles, 3000 ft Ascending, 2500 ft Descending I’m pretty sure I’m hallucinating, as I lay here in the grass in front of our evening accommodation, staring at the blue sky and granite peaks overhead, unable to move after being laid to waste over the past hour of …
Day 4 Rest Day Courmayeur I’ve skinned my elbows. Not from tripping and falling down on the trail, which might be predicted and/or expected, but instead from erasing 46 years off my age and choosing to go down the children’s slide. Some may think that’s an odd choice for my age, but how often does …
Day 3 Trekking Le Ville de Glaciers to Courmayeur 10 Miles, 2400 ft Ascending, 2700 ft Descending I’m pretty sure that heaven and earth meet here, in La Ville des Glaciers, in perfect harmony. How can I be sure? Because here I stand, in a beyond breathtaking valley, surrounded not just by mountains and all …