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Thursday Jul 13, 2023 #
Trekking/Hiking 5:48:00 [3]
TMB Day 10 - Argentiere to Chamonix
So hard to believe it was our last day! We really enjoyed the breakfast at the fancy hotel and at this point, we had lots of people to chat with every morning. We headed out of Argentiere with a big climb up to Chalet des Cheseyrs. From there, we were supposed to go to Lac Blanc on a variant, but we it had been cloudy and rainy all morning and we knew that there would not be any of the spectacular views that the notes promised. With an important paragliding appointment to make (for everyone but me!) at the end of the day, we chose to head straight to Flegere instead. We had a lunch break at Flegere and then headed along another balcony route (unfortunately with limited views this time) towards Plan Praz, where we had started 10 days ago!
Kristen had presented the idea of finishing the hike by paragliding down to Chamonix, and everyone was keen to do this except for me! We all got a bit emotional as we saw Plan Praz come into view, and there were some tears and hugs before we had a celebratory beer before the paragliding pilots showed up. I took photos and videos of the girls taking off then took the cable car back down to meet them.
This day passed all too quickly, but we found the time for a celebratory bottle of prosecco on our balcony overlooking Chamonix, a delicious dinner in town, and then another celebration with our Australian friends to round out the night.
Stats for the day were about 14km, with 1380m of ascent and 633m of descent.
So hard to believe it was our last day! We really enjoyed the breakfast at the fancy hotel and at this point, we had lots of people to chat with every morning. We headed out of Argentiere with a big climb up to Chalet des Cheseyrs. From there, we were supposed to go to Lac Blanc on a variant, but we it had been cloudy and rainy all morning and we knew that there would not be any of the spectacular views that the notes promised. With an important paragliding appointment to make (for everyone but me!) at the end of the day, we chose to head straight to Flegere instead. We had a lunch break at Flegere and then headed along another balcony route (unfortunately with limited views this time) towards Plan Praz, where we had started 10 days ago!
Kristen had presented the idea of finishing the hike by paragliding down to Chamonix, and everyone was keen to do this except for me! We all got a bit emotional as we saw Plan Praz come into view, and there were some tears and hugs before we had a celebratory beer before the paragliding pilots showed up. I took photos and videos of the girls taking off then took the cable car back down to meet them.
This day passed all too quickly, but we found the time for a celebratory bottle of prosecco on our balcony overlooking Chamonix, a delicious dinner in town, and then another celebration with our Australian friends to round out the night.
Stats for the day were about 14km, with 1380m of ascent and 633m of descent.