The Walkers’ Haute Route, 2018
By Amy Hackney Blackwell
This trip was supposed to be like the Tour du Mont Blanc, only more so.
We’d done the TMB in 2016 and 2017, and had started to think we were ready for more challenge. When the TMB gets too easy, the Haute Route is the logical next choice - higher, longer, awesomer.
Heck, reading through the itinerary, we even thought some of the stages might be TOO short and leave us with time on our hands. We thought we might get bored.
We were cocky fools. We had no idea what we would face on the Haute Route, which is NOT just one step up from the TMB in difficulty.
But overconfidence wasn’t the worst of our problems. We’d have gotten through and enjoyed the walk. But there are worse things than being a little tired or scared on a mountain path.
Sometimes nothing goes according to plan.
NB: for an earlier writeup of this trip, check out my Haute Route 2018 on Adobe.