As I mentioned, we were so exhausted by our first day of hiking we fell into bed last night. We did want to share some of the highlights, however, before we finished hiking at 6 pm. As I mentioned, none of had slept well the night before, so we were starting at a deficit. In addition, we were still having some equipment issues (Kris played around with redistributing the weight several times in her pack) and Betsy ended up with some major knee pain on the 3 plus hours of extremely steep descent into Trivent. In fact, at the end, we sent Kevin and Kris ahead while Greg watched Betsy hobble with each step down.
But prior to the challenging descent, we enjoyed the amazing weather and some fabulous views of Mont Blanc to our rear as we reached the France/Swiss border and began the trek down to picturesque Trivent.
Here's photo of Kevin and Kris at our lunch stop.
Trivent was such a welcome sight after our tough descent and was beautiful. One of the landmarks is a beautiful church with the mountains in the background.
The place we stayed in was sort of an upscale hostel - some dormitory rooms and some private rooms but with bathrooms down a hall. We had a wonderful French dinner and breakfast in the morning. We were glad we had survived our first day but certainly we're sobered ( especially as everyone watched Betsy's descent)!
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too bad....keep up the good hiking
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