Training Log Archive: Torino

Hiking with Urs on a very beautiful fall day up from La Tourne exploring some more of the beautiful Jura mountain range up high.

Running an extra loop while Urs took the direct route back to La Tourne and the restaurant.
I followed the hiking trail signs, but several places it was hard to impossible to make out the trails, so I had to guess and eventually always found the signs on the trees again. However, it slowed me down quite a bit.
Once, I had to pass through a herd of incredible yaks with the most threatening horns. They all seemed to be bulls (later, I saw the females and young ones in a separate fence), and one of them snorted and look at me which made me very nervous, so I started to talk to it and skirted the whole herd in a wide arch. Uff.
Later on, I had to go yet through another herd of cows, and at the gate it said to be aware of the bull! Again, I kept close to the fence watching the herd, but they all seemed to be peaceful cows. I was glad when I could climb the gate on the other side.
My wisdom: trails are very well marked on trees and on maps, but often invisible in terrain or dead-end at private property.

An exploratory bike ride all uphill from home to see how far I could get. The wishful goal was Mont Racine, but the road up from Les Geneveys-sur-Coffrane was just too steep, and I did not have the energy and was getting cold. Finally, I turned at a dead-end (yet again).
In fact, if I hadn't done as many detours in that area, I would have had more time. Well, another time. I continue to discover the area and make sense in my head how to get from here to there.

Squeezing in a quick run in the afternoon. Urs dropped me off and picked me up again.

After another day spending at home putting together even more IKEA-furniture (I love doing it and am becoming quite the expert ;-)), and rearranging and more optimizing where things go, I finally kicked myself out the door after 6 pm and I was racing against daylight. Actually, towards the end in the woods it was fairly dark and I rode quite slowly down some of the trails feeling a little blind doing it.
I enjoyed getting the bearing in these parts of the woods thanks also to the bike-O map that Sandra printed for me. I am getting more and more familiar with this area and there is so much more to discover! Fun.
Getting home in the dark!