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Saturday Nov 7, 2015 #
orienteering 1:15:00 [3] ***
19c
La Roche-sur-Foron
I think if I wanted to carry a back-up lamp that was plenty powerful for night-O and only weighed 140g, I would go with Stoots.
No idea how reliable they are yet, but pretty magical. Claims 2h10 @ 1000 lumens, whatever that means. And that version is 185 euros, I think, which sounds reasonable. Beats 80$ magicshine at least.
Night-o, score-o, mostly in town, but a couple of jaunts into woods.
I orienteered pretty terribly. Bad routes, bad execution, and I overlooked two controls on the edge of the map. Besides that, lots of fun. Mostly road running, good to do once in a while.
Map is not quite ISSOM (and was 1:7500), but the town is a good one for sprint/score-o.
Stayed the night in a hostel in Chamonix.
I think if I wanted to carry a back-up lamp that was plenty powerful for night-O and only weighed 140g, I would go with Stoots.
No idea how reliable they are yet, but pretty magical. Claims 2h10 @ 1000 lumens, whatever that means. And that version is 185 euros, I think, which sounds reasonable. Beats 80$ magicshine at least.
Night-o, score-o, mostly in town, but a couple of jaunts into woods.
I orienteered pretty terribly. Bad routes, bad execution, and I overlooked two controls on the edge of the map. Besides that, lots of fun. Mostly road running, good to do once in a while.
Map is not quite ISSOM (and was 1:7500), but the town is a good one for sprint/score-o.
Stayed the night in a hostel in Chamonix.
Thursday Nov 5, 2015 #
trail run 1:15:00 [3]
Lignon loop, slow and easy, doing maths. Pretty out, sun made it through the fog today.
Sunday Nov 1, 2015 #
Note
It seems I could see something like 90km earlier today. From Mont Joly (near Contamine), Mont Pourri (35km, near les Arcs where I was summer orienteering) and the Glacier de la Vanoise (55km) were pretty clear, but the winner was the massif de la Chartreuse...
10 AM
trail run 2:00:00 [1] 22.59 km (5:19 / km) +1933m 3:43 / km
Le Planey - Mont Joly - Aiguille Croche - La Colombaz - Le Planey
Out for 6h42, long enough to turn a little pink this glorious November day.
Met up with a few ultra-runner people to go for a run/hike. They weren't half as hard-core as they sound. We walked up Mont Joly, 1300m climb, 2525m.asl, stopping for bites a couple of times. Views from the top were rather spectacular.
We then trotted along the above ridge (mostly not hairy) to the end, Aiguille Croche. From the other end it looked a bit like -
L'Aiguille Croche stuck up a fair bit. We didn't go further south.
It was pretty sweet having Mt Blanc off to our side the whole time.
Then we started the unending descent.
Halfway down the second telesiege, we traversed, heading north along a lovely small trail, then descended to la Colombaz. From there to Baptieu, then along roads a little almost to La Chapelle, then up a trail again past Revennaz and back to the car.
I suspect Geneva was under the stratus (cloud) all day. Ha.
Out for 6h42, long enough to turn a little pink this glorious November day.
Met up with a few ultra-runner people to go for a run/hike. They weren't half as hard-core as they sound. We walked up Mont Joly, 1300m climb, 2525m.asl, stopping for bites a couple of times. Views from the top were rather spectacular.
We then trotted along the above ridge (mostly not hairy) to the end, Aiguille Croche. From the other end it looked a bit like -
L'Aiguille Croche stuck up a fair bit. We didn't go further south.
It was pretty sweet having Mt Blanc off to our side the whole time.
Then we started the unending descent.
Halfway down the second telesiege, we traversed, heading north along a lovely small trail, then descended to la Colombaz. From there to Baptieu, then along roads a little almost to La Chapelle, then up a trail again past Revennaz and back to the car.
I suspect Geneva was under the stratus (cloud) all day. Ha.