Setting back out on our rambles after an excellent wedding weekend diversion, feeling the weight of restocking our bags and complaining about it a LOT(!), visiting a 12th century castle, noticing the leaves have started to turn yellow, steep paths, pretty villages, a blue butterfly trying to hitch a ride, the tiniest chapel I've ever seen perched atop a hill, following an art trail with panels of info teaching you how to sketch trees and mountains and flowers, meeting up with Nick and Katie in Barèges (the Pyrénées Hiking Society will be hiking with the full contingent for the next week!), setting off towards the Col du Tourmalet, turning up a valley along a river where a marmot welcomed us back to the mountains and setting up camp just in time for a huge thunderstorm to roll in, cooking fajitas in the most ridiculous conditions ever achieved – in the porch of our tent as the storm thundered and battered the tent!
The vital statistics:
Total hiking time: 6h38
Peak: 1728m
Total ascent: 1398m
Total descent: 401m
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