Saturday, June 22, 2013

Opening hiking season around Grenoble

Summer time!

Meaning that most of France is on holidays and that it is the best time to go out for hiking!


Therefore, here is a few photos from our warm-up hike (at >30 deg C) from the city center of Grenoble to the top of the Mont Rachais (1046 m a.s.l, just above the La Bastille).










(Our house is somewhere in the left middle part of the photograph.)


And just a small note about hot temperatures for those who does not know: as soon as it gets hot, snow in mountains starts to melt very-very fast! (Quelle surprise!) Thus every day on the way to work I see that the water level in our local river Isère is getting higher, higher and higher day after day! 


It is very nice that there are high dikes along the river, which were reenforced last year - otherwise we all will be flooded here... A lot of debris and large tree trunks are flowing with melt-waters.
 

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