Monday, September 14, 2009

France: Xonrupt-Lac du Longemer

On Sunday we continued with our tour around the Vosges mountains and our destination was Xonrupt to camp at the Lac du Longemer.
Outside the camping site a hike started that lead to a beautiful panorama view where also the cache GC1CFAR-VIEUX CHEVAUX was hidden.

It was quite a hike upwards, we had to conquer different type of terrain, and paths with loosely rocks. Not easy to walk on.

But we managed to reach the top.

And after we had to wait for other hikers to leave we could search the cache-box.
We wrote our entry in the logbook at 15:45.

Here you can see me write the log.

What a beautiful sight from up here.

The hike downwards was also though considering the steepness.

At one point I even fell on my bottom and ruined the GPS. A big scratch is now present on the screen oops....

The loose rocks were hard to climb up but even worse to climb downwards.

But we managed to reach the bottom of the hill again, to rest at the camping site that was very close by.
On Monday we made a hike around the lake. It was a hike of about 7 Km, but we didn't need to climb a lot so that was welcoming after the hike of yesterday.

We passed by the cache GC1QQB4-Le brochet de Charlemagne where we searched for a while because the hint (rocks) wasn't very helpful with all the rocks over there.

But we were able to found it at 13:00.

Then we passed by the start of the short multi-cache GC1RR45-L'ermite Bilon, the first way-point was at a lovely chapel.

At one point the bears could swim in the lake, which they always enjoy doing.

And we found the stash at 14:00.

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