September 4 & 5
September 4 & 5: Chamonix Well, I wasn't going to post anything further after the end of the hike. But - I have to have somewhere to put some pictures from today. Yesterday (September 4) was a pretty lazy day. Leisurely breakfast and lazing about for a bit. Then we spent a few hours stimulating the local economy. A person could easily spend a LOT of money here. Met the boys for dinner, and appreciate them trekking over to our place in an absolute downpour. Sure glad we weren't out on the trail for that one. It was still raining buckets on the walk home. A few days ago we had reserved tickets for the gondola ride up the Aiguille du Midi. A very popular tourist activity here. Two gondola rides up to 3800m from the valley floor at about 1000m. When we saw the weather forecast change yesterday, Pat popped over to the base station to see if he could change our tickets to later in the day. No luck. Needless to s...