Tag: mountains
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Driving to the Sun
Reading Time: 2 minutesIf you’re like me, you might read "driving to the sun" and think I’m speaking of driving to Spain or to Southern France. This wasn’t the case today. Today, as I saw we were in the fog, or in a layer of cloud I decided that I would drive up to an…
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The Up and Down Flat Ride
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I went for a bike ride. When I looked at the route I thought "this looks like a nice calm, relaxed ride. It wasn’t. I rode with group 2, which is a fast group, going uphill at 20-40 km/h on certain segments. You might look at a cycling route and think…
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Four Thousand Meters of Cycle Climbing in the Franco-Swiss Jura
Reading Time: 3 minutesMt Tendre via Rolle For a year or more I had been tempted to cycle up to the Mont Tendre and on Saturday I got the opportunity to try that ride with Tête de Course, a Nyon cycling community and café/restaurant. The route went from Nyon to Rolle, and then from Rolle…
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Vision Du Réel – The Mountains Won’t Move
Reading Time: 2 minutesVision Du Réel is a documentary film festival that takes place every year, or almost. It is an opportunity to watch documentary films on a screen bigger than a laptop or television. Many films are screened with the director/producer but they are also screened a second time. Yesterday I went to watch…
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Le Chemin Des Moulins
Reading Time: 2 minutesYesterday I went for a hike from Le Day down to the Saut du Day before going up towards the Aiguilles de Baume and beyond. In the process I saw six or more wind mills. The hike is 21.71km long, took about 6hr41 1178m of ascent and 895m of descent.Moving time was…
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A walk from Le Brassus to Mont Tendre via Marchairuz
Reading Time: 3 minutesYesterday I expected the walk to be physical. I expected it to be around 21 kilometres. I also saw that it was meant to snow overnight. It got me to question whether it made sense to do the hike. I went anyway. In the end I walked 35 thousand steps according to…
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Brompton On Hills
Reading Time: 2 minutesCycling in Switzerland requires the ability to go up and down hills. Some of the climbs are long and steep, others are short and steep, and yet more are shallow but long climbs. That’s where bike gears come into their own. The more gears you have the more precisely you can control…
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Walking Down The Jura
Reading Time: 2 minutesToday I woke up and instead of cycling up to see this view and have a meal I decided to do the opposite. I would walk down. Two or three summers ago I walked up and they took four or five hours. Walking down is much easier. One or two bits are…
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Day 64 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – “When I’m 64”
Reading Time: 3 minutesEarlier today or yesterday at some point I was thinking of the song When I’m 64, and that I should share it. I’m not 64. Quarantine hasn’t aged me so drastically. I felt the need to make that joke. Recycling For the first time in two months I went to the recycling…
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Day 35 of Self-Isolation in Switzerland – A Hike To La Barillette.
Reading Time: 4 minutesToday I went for a Hike from La Barillette to La Barillette. It’s a shame that the restaurant wasn’t open to the public. It is currently marked as private, and scheduled to open on the first of May. Today I didn’t expect to do a long and physical hike. I expected to…