A day with raquettes

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Utterly exhausting, but what views. We're home now and it's 8.30 p.m. Can I go to bed now please?

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Photos

All booted up & ready to go
Getting through snow on these may be the most exhausting thing we've ever done. Listening to the snow creaking and cracking beneath us was quite an exhilarating part of the experience

Montesegur, as we started our walk
We were walking up and away from here, but this was the view as we set off

Walking through the forest
The snow was so deep. We spotted fox prints (they carefully tread in their own prints, making a sort of single line), and squirrel prints (tiny, slight front paw marks, heavier rear ones)

Above Montsegur now....
....and still climbing

Still climbing upwards...
....and this is the view

Annoyingly, I couldn't get the descant line of Good King Wenceslas out of my head...
..'In his master's steps he trod....'

Comments

[Diana Lam]

The views from your skiing is amazing. I would probably gotten height fright....I love the sound of snow cracking under my feet... It is just amazing what nature can do itself..it looks like you had a wonderful day even if it was exhausting. I have actually never tried skiing myself but I would love to ..

[MargaretL]

Well, I'd never have the nerve to try skiiing- raquettes or snow shoes is more than enough challenge for me. And no scary cliff tops to contend with, so height-fright not an option. Trust me, I'm dead scared of tops-of-church-tower type heights.