• Fun three days of hiking (not much snow to be found) in the Vercors and the first sunrise of 2023. Also nice to see the other side of the ridge after hiking through the Hauts Plateaux lying West of it last summer, awesome either way.

    Happy new year!

  • Thank you, to you as well. A French word for the German 'Föhn wetter' that is thawing the snow in the Alps right now?

  • I didn’t know that phenomenon, interesting. Though I’m not sure that’s what was happening here, the wind was steadily blowing in the same direction as the valley. It was just very warm. I didn’t use gloves at all over the three days.

  • The French speaking Swiss still call it foehn as far as I know. So many places in Switzerland are getting the rental bikes back out of storage. It must have been a massive hit to a lot of places having no snow for Christmas week.

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