A great day out for Sophie and I. Following previous walk I planned a separate one to take into account Aguillete du argentiere and rising to the lac du Chesery.
Really nice start, weaving our way through the woodland and identifying various climbing points and fungi. Lots of map lichen and cud ear lichen which is similar to the Uk. Lots of mosses and shrubs as we moved further up including ling heather (scotch heather) and bilberries. First time I have found cowberry’s too which I identified through their waxy oval leaves and red berries. A lot sharper than bilberries!
At the Aguillete we had lunch and I showed Sophie a number of climbing routes before moving up the ladders and continued on to lac du Chesery. Water was lovely but didn’t go in and we made headways along the ridge line back down to tee Le champ and Le planet.
During the walk we had good views of the nee de glace glacier and I tried to recall facts around glaciation and similarities between alps and snowdonia.
A good day overall, planned well, found good ecology and interesting seeing difference in althdinal montane zones compared to UK (tree line -650m in UK, 16/1800m alps)
Overall time was about 6.5hours which was a good time. On way down coaches sophie through as her knee had started hurting
