{"id":10000,"date":"2019-08-22T20:45:13","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T18:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/?p=10000"},"modified":"2019-08-22T20:49:04","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T18:49:04","slug":"la-tournette","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.desertsun.co.uk\/blog\/10000\/","title":{"rendered":"La Tournette"},"content":{"rendered":"

The reason I didn’t post anything today was because I hiked up La Tournette<\/a>, a 2,351m mountain which is the highest in the area around Annecy. It took me 3 hours and 50 minutes to get to the top from the village of Montmin, and another 2 hours and 30 minutes to get back down. According to the guidebook, it represents an altitude gain of 1,024m and it felt like it. Two hours in and I was on a grassy slope looking up at this towering wall of rock and I felt like turning back. If I’d known what was to come I would have, but if you live in Annecy and you tell people you go hiking then you pretty much have to go up La Tournette. Also, I didn’t want to be looking at it in future thinking “yeah, I almost got up there but wrapped my tits in”<\/em>, so I kept going. I’m reasonably fit thanks to going to the gym and skiing, but I wasn’t hiking fit: the last serious hike I did was up Le Parmelan<\/a> 3 years ago. By the time I got back to the car I could barely stand up. It didn’t help matters than an hour from the end half the sole came off my walking boot, and I did the rest with it flapping about underneath. They were very good boots, made by the Italian company Zamberlan<\/a>, but in fairness I bought them in 1997 and have battered them since, so I probably shouldn’t ring them up and complain.<\/p>\n

Anyway, here’s me at the top.<\/p>\n

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I’ve posted some other pictures here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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