It’s been three weeks now since I got back from France, having completed a 6-day trek in the Vanoise Alps. This was everything I was expecting and more, and, despite a worrying lack of fitness, made for an immensely enjoyable holiday.

On the GR5, Vanoise Alps.

More details in later posts, but for now, here’s a link to the photos (on Picasa Web Albums):

• Tour of the Vanoise Glaciers — Gallery

Well, it’s been a bit quiet on this blog over the last couple of weeks. It’s not that I haven’t been up to anything interesting — rather the opposite really. I delayed my summer holiday a little this year, and followed a long weekend in Scotland (part of which is described in this post) with a few days at home in Cambridge, and a week’s trekking in the Vanoise Alps.

Approaching the Col de la Vanoise.

This was a much shorter escapade than the 13 days’ trekking that made up last year’s Walkers’ Haute Route. And yet the variety packed into 6 days surpassed the longer trek in my opinion. Given that the “Tour of the Vanoise Glaciers” (which seems to be what this route is generally known as) is restricted to a small corner of the Parc National de la Vanoise, the possibilities for extended trips in this area, and in the neighbouring Parco Nazionale del Gran Paradiso across the border in Italy, are quite exciting. So many mountains — so little time.

I’ll be blogging about this trip more in the near future, and posting some more photos. Also in progress are posts about WordPress plugins I’ve implemented on the blog, and an update on the catalog issues I was having with Adobe Photoshop Lightroom.