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Jour 75: le Mont Thabor, ce sera une prochaine fois ! À 5h00, le réveil sonne dans le dortoir. Le plus silencieusement possible, Roel, Hugo et moi prenons nos affaires et nous nous dirigeons vers la salle hors-sac (expression française qui indique une salle où les randonneurs peuvent cuisiner). Hugo et Roel se regardent avec […]

Following the bivouac at Refuge Entre Deux Eaux, a new beautiful day begins. Today is a mini day of just 12 kilometres. We will reach Pralognan, a small village with a campsite, and we plan to take full advantage of the facilities to relax.After a good climb, the trail opens onto a valley filled with alpine lakes and rivers. At the refuge…

After a somewhat questionable night’s sleep (I could easily have slept for hours longer, and on slightly more even ground), I pack up my tent (loosely speaking, as I am not very meticulous when it comes to packing, and my tent usually ends up crumpled into a ball at the bottom of my side pouch)…

I wake up with a start. The sun is already well up. Oops, it is already 8.00 am, I forgot to set my alarm clock. Well, technically, when bivouacking, the tent must be taken down before 9.00 am, which leaves me just enough time to get organised. Already, most hikers…

Three hours. That is how many hours I slept after a night punctuated by surprise thunderstorms and food poisoning. I pull myself together, pack my things into my rucksack, and nibble very lightly on two small mouthfuls of bread, just so my stomach is not completely empty…

Un petit résumé des dernières semaines Me voici de retour sur mon blog! Dans les dernières semaines de l’étape 4, je n’ai eu que très peu de temps pour écrire, en raison de journées de marche très exigeantes dépassant les 30 kilomètres presque tous les jours! Le soir, une fois la tente posée, je n’avais

This time, that’s it, we officially begin stage four, a 514 kilometre route passing through Ardèche, Tarn, the Cévennes and Languedoc. We head to Viviers, the starting point, and begin walking. Unfortunately, Édouard will not be able to continue with us...

5.30 a.m. The alarm goes off. Feeling excited as the forecast mentions a chance of sunshine, I stick my head out of the tent to assess the situation. Damn, fog again. Just my luck, I would have loved to enjoy the view from the summit of Mont Tendre. Disappointed, I climb back…

After our night at Jacky’s place, and following a breakfast kindly offered by our host, we set off again along the trail to enjoy the final kilometres running alongside the Doubs Gorges. The views are magnificent, and the sun is…

Rest day! My previous breaks were mainly due to my tendon injury, but this time my whole body is calling for a day off. We decide to take a tram towards Cernay, as…