Day 8: Champex to Trient (July 26)
23 km, 737.9 m ascent, 947.3 m descent
The previous year, we’d done the “easy” Alp Bovine route to Trient. This year we’d intended to do the more challenging Fenêtre d’Arpete, but at the last minute, the cold weather and our hostess persuaded us not to go up that high. No matter, the Bovine route is challenging enough, AND its buvette is one of our favorite restaurants.
We felt strong now. A week of daily hiking will do that….
On one mountainside all the trees have been recently knocked down by some great violent force. If I were at home I would guess a microburst or tornado, but here I suspect avalanche is more likely.
We finished the day’s hike in Trient, where we stayed at La Grande Ourse (The Big She-Bear), same place we stayed last year.
It seemed that the same dissatisfied tourists were there too, sharing the same meal of spaghetti with us in the crowded dining room. This is another place with bathrooms in the hall. Chris reported that the Japanese tourists were prone to wandering around the men’s room naked.
