Didn’t sleep well last night- uncomfortable isn’t the word! Sliding down the hill all evening provides constant exercise as I tried to sleep. I guess there’s no rest for the almighty Tour de Mont Blancers! To top off my sliding down the hill, every time I went to reposition myself up the tent Laura and Ashleigh grew closer together and I gradually couldn’t even get to my proper sleeping position without virtually knocking them out of the way! Also not too sure what was louder…. The rain or Laura’s snoring!!
Anyways, I thought waking up extra early compared to everyone else would help me get ready quicker but to my surprise I was yet again the last to be ready! Fantastic!
It was raining too but at approximately 9.25am we crossed the border into Switzerland and it began to snow! Great summer we’re having! Like all good things go, so did the snow, and the rain decided it would be a perfect time to pelt down for the rest of the day!
Despite the rain, Switzerland was very beautiful! However, the beauty soon went as we had to have lunch in the rain too! The tomato soup was lovely and we had left over baguettes with brie and pate from yesterday. Thankfully after lunch the sun decided to come out, but to our luck it didn’t last long! Woo!
When we had to decide on whether to walk on or sleep at the hostel that evening we soldiered on for another few hours and therefore managed to save 300 euros.
Due to the rain my clothes got completely soaked through. My waterproof trousers did a fantastic job, so definitely a good investment!
Faye
Woke up late because Ben set the alarm for English time! We got up and cooked breakfast in the rain and left for Col de Balme around 9.30 French time.
We crossed the Swiss-French border and carried along the path towards Col de la Forclaz as the rain finally dried off. We headed down the river when it started chucking it down AGAIN!! The higher in the mountains we got after the Col de Balme, the rain turned to snow and looked beautiful but as soon as we dropped down it turned to horrible rain again.
We had to make sandwiches in the pouring rain, Jack did a good job of keeping the baguettes dry. We then set off again to Col de Forclaz when the sun came out. We had a toilet break at Col de Forclaz at 1600m ish. We carried on walking though and set up camp in the glorious sunshine finally at the bottom of the hill just below Alp Bovine.
It was nice to have the sunshine for the late afternoon as it gave us time to dry out the tents and all of our wet clothes for the morning. It was sod’s law too that it came out just after we made lunch! Bit did lift everyone’s spirits though as everyone was so miserable and soaked through.
Chris
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