The Tour du Mont Blanc, around the highest mountain in Europe, is arguably one of the best walks in the world. Over the next 10-12 days we will be walking the 170km route anti-clockwise starting in Les Houches using the Tour of Mont Blanc Cicerone guide by Kev Reynolds. We plan to roughly follow the daily itinerary outlined in the book but depending on variables like the weather and the state of our feet we may vary the pace and the route.
To give us maximum flexibility we have only booked accommodation for the first three nights - any more would give us too much of a headache cancelling if we were to change our plans but booking less in the August peak holiday period seemed too risky. As it was the CAF refuge in Les Contamines-Montjoie was full so we have booked into Hotel Le Christiania for the first night.
We are flying into Geneva and catching the alpybus transfer to Chamonix, then spending a couple of days there to get over jet lag before setting off on the walk.
The Chamonix weather forecast for the last week has been very hot - over 30C and in the low 20s at 2000m with thunderstorms in the afternoons so I'm expecting to see a wide variety weather conditions. That's OK, although we have packed light (my pack weighs just 7kg and that includes 1.5litres of water) we have most scenarios covered.
Well I'm ready as I'll ever be....are we there yet?
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