Pont-de-Montvert to Le Bleymard 20km; 850m up

Our biggest day. Well-vitalled after visiting the local shop, we set off today following the GR 70, Route de Stevenson for one of its days. Named after Robert Louis Stevenson, he walked it was his donkey, Modestine, and wrote Travels in the Cevennes with a Donkey. Good Scottish and Hebridean connections too as his family designed most of the lighthouses in Scotland.
Following a well-trod national trail makes navigation easy. Wrong! The route must have changed and we followed an old route that the authorities had clearly tried to erase from the ground and so we ended up bush whacking and hopping across streams on boulders early on - the last thing one needs on a big day.
After about 5km our route rejoined the modern route and things became easier. A welcome coca-cola helped us up the steep section - the first three of the extra images show the increasingly huge and beautiful panorama and eventually we came out at the summit of Mont Lozere as photographed above at 1699m.  My head at least is over 1700m!
The descent was long following initially a long line of standing stones  but another welcome stop for ice creams helped a bit. 
Today's bet? The number of donkeys we would see. Tricia went for six, I went for five and cleaned up with the one we saw. Prize yet to be determined.
The campsite was of course on the far side of the village but at least I got to look at all the possibilities for eating having won yesterday's bet. It ended up as a choice of one again but luckily was close to the, this time very quiet, campsite. Decent but not startling food and a relatively early night.