dst. (km) Today 45.01 Trip total 3120.5 Odometer 45.0
The pizza last night for dinner was a very bad idea. It stayed in me about an hour. The stomach pains and poor sleep lasted the whole of the rest of the night. This morning I feel a little better, but very weak, not having eaten much for the last two days.
On the plus side, it has stopped raining and the fog looks like it might clear up.
Feeling the need to do something, I decided to catch the telepherique across the valley and up the mountain. Colorado Mike and Karen decided to join me, and we caught it up to the 2800m point for a brief snowfight and 15 minutes of looking down on Vaujany. There’s not much to do up there without skis, and so after tromping in the snow, we caught it back down to Alpette and spent a further hour and a half walking, exploring, stumbling in icy-cold mountain streams and marmot spotting before coming back to the village for some lunch.
Back down in Vaujany I hurried up to the phones at the village shops. I managed to get through to Jo on the phone and was in much better spirits for the rest of the afternoon.
Nearly and I went out for a bike ride, heading down the valley to the lake, then around to le Bourg d’Oisans. I think at the start I had a vague idea of riding up l’Alpe d’Huez again and trying to better my time. It was chaos, the closer I got to the town. People turning up for tomorrow, parking and camping everywhere, people riding little stretches of the route. I briefly thought of heading part way up the mountain and then coming back via Huez and the side road to Villard Reculas, but my heart wasn’t in it so I turned around and came back the way I’d gone out.
As it was I managed to do an idiot thing and turned off at the wrong side road from the lake. I was half-way up to Oz, having climbed for ten minutes before realising, and having to go back down to the lake, around a couple more kilometres and up the road to Vaujany.
Where?
Vaujany(45.15,6.0833333) Bourg d’Oisans
