Friday, 14 September 2012

Thursday 13 September 2012 - GR54 Day 13 - Refuge de la Muzelle (2130m) to Bourg d'Oisans (720m)

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Approx 18 km with 500 metres ascent, in 7 hours 40 minutes, including breaks totalling 1 hour 30 minutes. Another great mounta...
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Thursday, 13 September 2012

The View from Refuge de la Muzelle

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The pictures were taken on 12 September from the refuge, looking back to the Col de la Muzelle (2625m): Top - on arrival at 1...
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Wednesday 12 September 2012 - GR54 Day 12 - Valsenestre (1294m) to Refuge de la Muzelle (2130m)

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Approx 10 km with 1350 metres ascent, in 3 hours 40 minutes, including a break of 10 minutes at Col de la Muzelle (2625m). Bas...
Wednesday, 12 September 2012

Tuesday 11 September 2012 - GR54 Day 11 - Le Désert-en-Valjouffrey (1255m) to Valsenestre (1294m)

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Approx 9 km with 1050 metres ascent, in 5 hours 30 minutes, including breaks totalling 1 hour 30 minutes. Whilst plying us wit...

Monday 10 September 2012 - GR54 Day 10 - Refuge des Souffles (1975m) to Le Désert-en-Valjouffrey (1255m)

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Approx 10 km with 600 metres ascent, in 4 hours 40 minutes, including breaks totalling 1 hour. Roy devised his own alarm syste...
Monday, 10 September 2012

Sunday 9 September 2012 - GR54 Day 9 - Refuge de Vallonpierre (2271m) to Refuge des Souffles (1975m) via Col de Colombes

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Approx 21 km with 1400 metres ascent, in 9 hours including breaks totalling 2 hours. Our longest day of the trip - on excellen...
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Sunday, 9 September 2012

Saturday 8 September 2012 - GR54 Day 8 - Refuge du Pré de la Chaumette (1790m) to Refuge de Vallonpierre (2271m)

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Approx 11 km with 1300 metres ascent, in 6 hours including breaks and diversions totalling 1 hour 50 minutes. Another fine mou...
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Friday 7 September 2012 - GR54 Day 7 - Refuge des Bans (2076m) to Refuge du Pré de la Chaumette (1790m)

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Approx 18 km with 1200 metres ascent, in 8 hours 5 minutes including breaks totalling 1 hour 50 minutes. A great mountain day ...

Thursday 6 September 2012 - GR54 Day 6 - Vallouise (1166m) to Refuge des Bans (2076m)

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Approx 12 km with 950 metres ascent, in 4 hours 30 minutes including breaks totalling 40 minutes. Plus assorted extras in the af...
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The View from our room at Refuge des Bans

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The sun has now gone down on us, but the distant mountains will be bathed in light for several hours to come. (This posting was intend...
Thursday, 6 September 2012

Setting off from Vallouise

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We are heading into sun drenched mountains with maybe no phone signal for some time. Bye for now, and apologies for the dummy posting.
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Wednesday 5 September 2012 - GR54 Day 5 - Monêtier-les-Bains (1495m) to Vallouise (1166m) via Col des Grangettes

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Approx 20 km with 1200 metres ascent, in 7 hours 45 minutes including breaks totalling 1 hour 30 minutes. We award top marks t...
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Tuesday, 4 September 2012

Tuesday 4 September 2012 - GR54 Day 4 - Refuge de l'Alpe de Villar d'Arene (2077m) to Monêtier-les-Bains (1495m)

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Approx 13 km with 400 metres ascent, in 4 hours 40 minutes including breaks totalling 1 hour. Stale bread featured in today...
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Monday 3 September 2012 - GR54 Day 3 - Le Chazelet (1786m) to Refuge de l'Alpe de Villar d'Arene (2077m) via Col du Lautaret

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Approx 19 km with 950 metres ascent, in 7 hours 40 minutes including breaks totalling 2 hours 30 minutes. Superb paths under c...
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Sunday, 2 September 2012

Sunday 2 September 2012 - GR54 Day 2 - Clavans-le-Bas to Chez Baptiste in Le Chazelet

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Approx 17 km with 1300 metres ascent, in 7 hours 10 minutes including breaks totalling 1 hour 20 minutes. An excellent mountai...
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Saturday, 1 September 2012

Saturday 1 September 2012 - GR54 Day 1 - Bourg d'Oisans to Clavans-le-Bas

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Approx 20 km with 1400 metres ascent, in 7 hours 50 minutes including breaks totalling 1 hour 50 minutes. An excellent first da...
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Friday, 31 August 2012

Tour of the Oisans - Getting to Bourg d'Oisans

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Thanks go to JJ for taxiing us to T3 at Manchester for a leisurely 10.10 departure on our BMI flight to Lyon. We hope you ...
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Tour of the Oisans – the GR54 round the Écrins

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We are on our travels again.  Hopefully on BD1343 to Lyon by the time you read this.  We plan to walk around the Écrins by way of a 1...
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Thursday, 30 August 2012

Wednesday 29 August 2012 – An Evening Walk from Redesmere

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Andrew’s ‘Deepest Cheshire’ summer’s evening series of walks concluded with this stroll from Redesmere, where we caught the last rays...