August 3, 2024 Auberge La Flégère to Les Houches 10.6 miles There’s something nice about doing a circular hike. It’s like completing a ring, making it back to the beginning. I do love a full-circle ending, me. Tie up all those loose ends, make it all connect. Bring us back to where it started. You …
August 2, 2024 Auberge la Boerne in Tré-le-Champ to Refuge La Flégère ~5.1 miles hiked (~2.9 miles on Lac Blanc alternate) Despite the storm, I wake refreshed. The campsite is next to a flowing stream, and boy do I love camping next to a flowing stream. It’s so soothing and almost guaranteed to make me …
July 31, 2024 Chalet la Grange, Champex-lac to Auberge Mont Blanc, Trient 10 miles Another morning, another half-awake scramble to get moving followed by another delicious breakfast. More of that tangy, thick alpine yogurt that I love! Melissa has provided us with little tureens of it, along with jam, cereal, and of course, freshly baked …
July 28, 2024 Courmayeur to Rifugio Bonatti (then bus back to Courmayeur) 7.6 miles Today is an easy day, and we’re slackpacking, and we’re staying in the same place tonight. So there isn’t much of a rush this morning to get up. The ability to spread out in my own extremely comfortable bed after the …
July 15, 2024 Canal Park in Duluth to mile 262.8 4.6 miles hiked Staying in town for one last night means, obviously, that we do not get an early start. For one, it’s Machine’s birthday, and I wake up early and attempt to subtly decorate the room before he wakes up. Back in Two Harbors, …
July 14, 2024 White Pine campsite to Canal Park, Duluth 14.7 miles Town day! Town day! I rally myself out of lethargy as well as I can and get moving. I’m not messing around with the DEET again today. It’s a two-wipe morning. We only have a few miles of real trail left before the …
Sarahmarie Specht-Bird 