{"id":20921,"date":"2024-02-08T09:43:53","date_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=20921"},"modified":"2024-02-08T09:43:53","modified_gmt":"2024-02-08T09:43:53","slug":"a-decent-walk-for-a-65-year-old-along-the-alpine-gr5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=20921","title":{"rendered":"A decent walk for a 59 year old."},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst rummaging around my blog’s history, I discovered my walk from Lake Geneva to Nice across the Alps, which I did in my 59th year. At my current age of 76 it would be nice to think I could still do it but alas, looking at the spreadsheet of that walk, I don’t think so!<\/p>\n

Especially since 5 months previous I had walked\u00a0 431km along The Pennine Way!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
GR5<\/td>\n<\/td>\nData from Memory Map<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Date<\/td>\nPlace<\/td>\nAscent (m)<\/td>\nDescent (m)<\/td>\nDistance (km)<\/td>\nTime<\/td>\n\u00a0Av.Gradient<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
02\/09\/06<\/td>\nSaint Gingolph<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
03\/09\/06<\/td>\nLa Chapelle<\/td>\n1929<\/td>\n1306<\/td>\n14.9<\/td>\n05:53<\/td>\n22%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
04\/09\/06<\/td>\nDe Chesery<\/td>\n1750<\/td>\n764<\/td>\n17.5<\/td>\n06:04<\/td>\n14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
05\/09\/06<\/td>\nSamoen<\/td>\n500<\/td>\n1700<\/td>\n19.8<\/td>\n<\/td>\n11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
06\/09\/06<\/td>\nLes Gets<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
07\/09\/06<\/td>\nMo\u00e9de Anterne<\/td>\n1894<\/td>\n620<\/td>\n18.4<\/td>\n06:28<\/td>\n14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
08\/09\/06<\/td>\nLes Houches<\/td>\n1043<\/td>\n2020<\/td>\n14.7<\/td>\n04:23<\/td>\n21%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
09\/09\/06<\/td>\nChalet Nant Borrant<\/td>\n1447<\/td>\n962<\/td>\n19.3<\/td>\n05:52<\/td>\n12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10\/09\/06<\/td>\nChalet de la Balme<\/td>\n2193<\/td>\n1683<\/td>\n23.4<\/td>\n10:40<\/td>\n17%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11\/09\/06<\/td>\nRefuge de Rosuel<\/td>\n1369<\/td>\n1801<\/td>\n21.8<\/td>\n09:11<\/td>\n15%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12\/09\/06<\/td>\nVal D\u2019Is\u00e9re<\/td>\n1401<\/td>\n1149<\/td>\n21.3<\/td>\n08:04<\/td>\n12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13\/09\/06<\/td>\nLanslevillard<\/td>\n1361<\/td>\n1732<\/td>\n29.3<\/td>\n10:26<\/td>\n11%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14\/09\/06<\/td>\nModane<\/td>\n1005<\/td>\n1409<\/td>\n28.5<\/td>\n09:09<\/td>\n8%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15\/09\/06<\/td>\nRefuge \u00e9troite<\/td>\n1558<\/td>\n830<\/td>\n16.2<\/td>\n06:53<\/td>\n15%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16\/09\/06<\/td>\nMontgen\u00e9vre<\/td>\n1800<\/td>\n1741<\/td>\n27.3<\/td>\n10:48<\/td>\n13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17\/09\/06<\/td>\nChateau Queyras<\/td>\n2012<\/td>\n2462<\/td>\n33.6<\/td>\n13:30<\/td>\n13%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18\/09\/06<\/td>\nCeillac<\/td>\n1097<\/td>\n821<\/td>\n12.5<\/td>\n05:26<\/td>\n15%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19\/09\/06<\/td>\nFouillouze<\/td>\n1703<\/td>\n1474<\/td>\n21.9<\/td>\n09:13<\/td>\n15%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20\/09\/06<\/td>\nBousieyas<\/td>\n2201<\/td>\n2211<\/td>\n30.9<\/td>\n12:54<\/td>\n14%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21\/09\/06<\/td>\nAuron<\/td>\n1652<\/td>\n1915<\/td>\n20.9<\/td>\n09:42<\/td>\n17%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
22\/09\/06<\/td>\nRoure<\/td>\n2299<\/td>\n2813<\/td>\n32.4<\/td>\n14:21<\/td>\n16%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23\/09\/06<\/td>\nDalmas-Valdeblore<\/td>\n1321<\/td>\n1105<\/td>\n13.8<\/td>\n06:32<\/td>\n18%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24\/09\/06<\/td>\nUtelle<\/td>\n1737<\/td>\n2228<\/td>\n23.4<\/td>\n10:48<\/td>\n17%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25\/09\/06<\/td>\nNice<\/td>\n1640<\/td>\n2438<\/td>\n32.9<\/td>\n10:19<\/td>\n12%<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n34912<\/td>\n35184<\/td>\n494.7<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\nNumber of Everests<\/td>\n3.9<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Whilst rummaging around my blog’s history, I discovered my walk from Lake Geneva to Nice across the Alps, which I did in my 59th year. At my current age of 76 it would be nice to think I could still do it but alas, looking at the spreadsheet of that walk, I don’t think so! […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,33],"tags":[200,402],"class_list":["post-20921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gr5","category-walks","tag-gr5","tag-walk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}