Thursday, September 13, 2012

Camping in the Belledonne

Good morning/afternoon/evening/[middle of the night]/[very early in the morning] long suffering readers (due to the Poisson-distribution nature of the posts on this blog where the lambda parameter has probably shifted downward over time making the mean/variance dynamic [over time] and therefore very difficult to model, I think). However, we're back. All new adventures, all new episodes, all new pictures. In fact, the blog has new financial backers that [content removed after disagreement with new financial backers --ed.]

Since Ironman training is over we now have time to actually do things. Of course, we haven't take the time to get to know anyone so doing anything really social is still out of the question. But, we like each other well enough so we can do fun things together. Last weekend we went camping in the Massif de Belledonne. It's one of the 3 mountain ranges that surrounds Grenoble and the biggest of the 3. In fact, the other 2 (Chartreuse and Vercors) are only part of "pre-Alps" (lame) but Belledonne is actually in THE ALPS. Crazy, no? So we took a bus up to around 1100 m to the town/ski resort of Chamrousse and started our hike into the woods there. Here it is actually:



(that's the town in the background after having walked a bit up further into the mountain)

Sandi tackling some giant rocks


Cool view

Our spot by the Lacs Robert

Preparing dinner


Preparing to eat dinner

Camping wine accessories

Reflecting lake -- cool eh!?

Grenoble in the background