17.07.25
The Tour Du Mont Blanc is not easy. That should be said. It's not a thousand miles through remote forest. It doesn't test you on every conceivable level the way one of the Big Three in North America might, but it will test you (and reward you) equally. I fell in love with this trail on the first day, but even more on the second as we coursed our way toward La Fouly with its generous campground and caught our first site of the Mt Blanc Massif. It was a short day from where we started at Lac de Champex. I'd have to say there's very little Swiss going on by the time you reach the east borders of the TMB and Champex is no exception. As the locals know, western Switzerland is eastern France. You wake with the sun and on this trail, you wake to the sounds of other hikers. The routines are generally the same in terms of resupply and what to expect from town to village to refugio but every step is absolutely bucolic. How to sum up these things? Let me say that our last thru was...