GR5
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Day 15 GR5 Montgen?vre to Ch?teau Queyras
This was a very long day. I ended up walking over 23 miles and 4000ft of ascent in over 10 hours out on the trail. Started off with the descent into Briançon making me thankful I hadnt attempted it the previous night as it took nearly 2 hours and i guess it would have taken…
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GR5 Days 13 and 14
Chris left me an email in his usual very positive tone reminding me that we had only one day of rain on the PW. So I left Modane yesterday to find that my head quickly becoming enveloped in thick cloud and dampness. However, arriving at Col de la Vallée Étroite at 8000ft I was confronted…
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Days 11 & 12 on GR5
Today the weather broke and I walked in rain all day to Modane , 17 miles in less than 6 hours with only one stop. The going was easy on the GR5E with only about 500ft or so of climbs all day from Lanslevillard. I kept reasonably dry, the Scarpa boots kept my feet really…
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Day 10 on the GR5
Made it to Val D’Isére today on my 9th walking day from St Gingolph on Lake Geneva. The new Scarpa boots I bought in Chamonix en-route are great, my heel blisters caused by the Raichle boots I bought in Cambridge have now disappeared. The vertical ascents on this route are amazing. My prediction is it…
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Route Planning
Here is the summary of the first two days walk that I propose starting on Saturday. I intend to follow the GR5 from St. Gingolph on Lake Geneva to Nice. I’m using , for the first time the memory-map software [Important the Alpes version MMV5/IGN/PE/MB388/CI is faulty call 01189062600 to get a version that has Geneva…