Geoff Jones

Inveterate dabbler in business, travel, gadgets & life

Category: Personal

Rambling, rain & recked

Having walked 51 miles in the past three days and with over 18,000 feet of ascent and descent on the GR10. Last nights storms & heavy rain this morning gave me a good reason to spend an idle day here in the luxury of La mason du Valier 🙂
Yesterdays highlight was been only feet away from a massive eagle taking off from a dead cow! The low was getting lost 3 times descending from Clot de Lac in thick cloud 🙁
Tomorrow is another epic day to Esbints, the guides reckon 10 hours so I guess it will be more like 12!
The calendar here says my birthday saint is St Samson, let’s hope I live upto the name….

Thick cloud on the GR10

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Today I recommence my GR10 walk from the Atlantic to The Mediterrean along The Pyrenees. I stopped halfway in Luchon 4 years ago in freezing cloud & very wet! Today is not looking so good either. It should be 11 hours to get to Fos reaching 2193metres above Luchon (650metres).
Now for breakfast….
Evening update!
I arrived in Fos at La Gentilhommiere hotel (run by English folks) at 17.47 having walked 18.2 miles in 7hr 21min plus 3hr 6min of stopped time. Must have done at least 2000m ascent & descent 🙂
Drank all my 2 litres of water!
On Pic de Cabanere (2193m) I managed to glimpse above the clouds the Pyrenees only glacier! Otherwise visibility was horrific – thank goodness the balisage were plentiful on the tops.

Shared items

Whilst on my evening walk on this glorious midsummer’s evening listening to the amazing Matt Darey Nocturnal show #305 I bumped into Rend, whilst chatting to her,  I realised that few people are aware that I read / glance at about 900 blogs/feeds in my free time. Any posts that catch my eye or that I like are shared 🙂

Once at home, even I, didn’t realise that google has made a very nice page of all my shared items that is visible here. I will make this a link in my main menu bar.

Now for some more reading 🙂 & Matt Darey.

A great time in Les Gets!

Just had this great email from the last tenants in my Les Gets apartment

Hi Geoff,
We’re all back safe, sound and much refreshed having had a great time in Les Gets.
The apartment was clean, comfy and well appointed and helped us to have a super skiing trip. As you said the pistes were firm but most had the fresh snow- cannon snow making the local area very extensive and we were certainly enjoying the blue skies and sunshine.
I’ll get your keys returned in the post on Monday.
I’ve taken the liberty of attaching a group picky.( I’m the guy on the end with the bright hat )
Once again thanks very much for the facility and hopefully we’ll be able to use your place again.
Cheers,
R

So even with poor snow conditions you can still enjoy yourself in Les Gets.

Emails like this makes it all worthwhile, especially that I now have Helen & Chris doing a full clean on the apartment after each letting 🙂