Today was 11 miles walked, 1600′ climbed, for totals of:  67 miles walked and 7,600′ climbed.

This is a beautiful party of the world!  We can easily use all of our superlatives and still be at a loss to describe the beauty.

There was the watermill on the way out of Chanaz

The view from the ridge:

And hiking along the river:

And the clear signs that Fall is just around the corner:

How can we not enjoy this? We are, but there is a beast (not really a beast, but I needed something to go with “Beauty”) …

This Via Gebennensis is well marked and mostly of very good trail quality. But, it’s not popular … yet.  (We saw no other hikers today). That’s good and bad. Good for the quiet enjoyment of the trail beauty, but a challenge for support and resources. Where on many trails, food and water stops are plentiful, here … not so much. So planning ahead for the next day or two’s meals needs is a requirement. Finding stores that are open and nearby for that meal planning is the next challenge. Today, we walked 2 miles to stock up for tomorrow’s longer hike.

It’s really not a big deal, but you can get run down after 6 or so hours of hiking and become grumbly about “more work. Truth is, we’ve been blessed and are thankful for enough health to do the journeys.

Bonne journee!