First Mountain Outing ....

.... for over 2 months, a superb forest footpath up to Lac Bleu, near Arolla. This valley is my favourite in Switzerland. I came here for my first "Alpine Season" with a friend, M, when we were only 19 and fell in love with the Alps. We made so many mistakes with the weather, the routes, and camped on an alpage, so found our tent surrounded by cows one day when we came back from a climb. Transhumance became real and not just a word in a Geography text book. Sadly my friend, M. had a stroke whilst skiing 3 years ago so she can no longer mountaineer. I always remember those days with such nostalgia, you live so deeply when you are in discovery mode. Blip has certainly helped that mode to reawaken sometimes, there is so much to discover and photograph, from the sublimely small, to the ridiculously huge. You can see some of these extremes from this walk on
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Thanks for all the comments etc. recently, so much appreciated.