Flowers near the trail to Argentiere

Across the Border and Back

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June 22nd 2006
Today we took the cable car and then the ski lift up to Col de Balme, a very green, grassy, hilly area further up the valley. A col is the saddle of a mountain. There were cows with huge cow bells where we hopped on the cable car, further up we saw a mare and her colt. There are flowers everywhere, but we don't think we saw any edelweiss - plenty of white flowers but they didn't look like the ... read more

Europe » France » Rhône-Alpes » Chamonix

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