Climbing Europe’s Tour du Mont Blanc was a completely totally different slice of European tradition for me: Coming upon a distant farmhouse-turned-thriving-cafe serving great lunches…flowers and cows (with basic bells) scenically sprinkled all through…and an esprit de corps the place everyone seems to be like household.
As almost everybody hikes in the identical route (counter-clockwise), you turn out to be pals with fellow hikers. It appeared like half the folks on the path have been from the US, and I met a number of Seattleites.
And within the curiosity of mountain climbing gentle, lunches have been quite simple — only a sandwich from the lodge, perhaps a carrot, a bit of fruit, and water. However upon reaching the mid-day summit, lunch was a marmot’s banquet. (Talking of marmots, we noticed no wildlife besides a few mice that had been squished beneath mountain climbing boots on the path.)
