We ate pizza and gelato. Probably drank too much and I rekindled my love for aperitivo. This is the Italian version of happy hour. Late in the day […]
Day 4 – Les Chapieux – Courmayeur
The owner of the hotel (François Faussurier) told us that the first 90 minutes of this trail was nothing but road walking. He also suggested that we do […]
Day 3 – Les Contamines-Montjoie – Les Chapieux
The defeat lasted another day. We discussed this day with the staff at Hôtel le Christiania. They scared 3 of us out of it. They told us it […]
Day 2 – Les Houches – Les Contamines-Montjoie
There was very little pride in day 2. We woke up, had breakfast in the hotel, and started off to Les Houches. The very small grade descent out […]
Day 1 – La Flegere to Les Houches.
For many people this is the final section that they do on the TMB. It is section 11 in Kev Reynold’s guidebook, we wanted to begin and end […]
Tour du Mont Blanc – Introduction
The Tour of Mont Blanc was a trip that was almost a year in the making. Samer and I discussed it last fall and we got my sister […]