Saturday 4th June
Another day safely negotiated - albeit in rain for most of the day!
After a 6am start, a 20k walk (only 1000m "up" today) through their 5th ski area - these areas appear quite sad once the snow starts to melt away. The highest point was 2200m today, which felt quite chilly, at 3 degrees C; but they are now comfortably camped at 800m, nearer to 16 degrees C - much more pleasant.
Camp tonight is just outside St Lary in lovely evening sunshine, both thankful to have day 20 safely behind them. Duties tonight: Rick on text detail ; and Sarah in the cookhouse (Mexican).
Apparently,8 days ago, in this region, local farmers moved their livestock to the high pastures in anticipation of spring/summers imminent arrivival;. Consequently, there are now millions of "nice but dim" flies increasingly becoming worriesome in the valleys- wondering where their free-lunch has gone.
I assume, as this was a large feature in the today's text, the flies have been pretty troublesome - presumably after that Mexican meal!
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Another day safely negotiated - albeit in rain for most of the day!
After a 6am start, a 20k walk (only 1000m "up" today) through their 5th ski area - these areas appear quite sad once the snow starts to melt away. The highest point was 2200m today, which felt quite chilly, at 3 degrees C; but they are now comfortably camped at 800m, nearer to 16 degrees C - much more pleasant.
Camp tonight is just outside St Lary in lovely evening sunshine, both thankful to have day 20 safely behind them. Duties tonight: Rick on text detail ; and Sarah in the cookhouse (Mexican).
Apparently,8 days ago, in this region, local farmers moved their livestock to the high pastures in anticipation of spring/summers imminent arrivival;. Consequently, there are now millions of "nice but dim" flies increasingly becoming worriesome in the valleys- wondering where their free-lunch has gone.
I assume, as this was a large feature in the today's text, the flies have been pretty troublesome - presumably after that Mexican meal!
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