Bastille: Take #3

I had (yet another) day off today, so I decided to climb up the Bastille again. This time I wandered around for about two hours on the trails that continue up past the main Bastille hike. It was gorgeous. I still can't believe all this is just a half hour tram ride away.

First hike in the Alps!

I finally went on a hike the other day with a few other assistants! It was great, but about halfway up it started to drizzle. As we made our way up and through the snow and then started to come back down, it slowly progressed into a full on downpour. Eventually we decided to get off the trail and veer onto a rode where we hitched a ride with a nice old man who let all five of us squeeze into his little car, and drove our freezing butts into town. So it was a little cold and wet, but it was great :) Next time I won't ignore the weather report though.

You can't see it, but once we got to the top it was covered in snow

I was a little bummed we missed the great view, there was so much fog we couldn't see anything! 

Made it to the top!

Les Alpes!

Today I was sitting in my room on my computer and the woman I live with stuck her head in and asked if I wanted to go up into the mountains for a short hike with them. Uh, yes please. It was one of those places you can't really get to on a bus, I would have never even thought to go there if they hadn't taken me. It was amazing. Within 15 minutes we were completely out of the city and in the countryside, within 40  we were in the Alps, my head kept swiveling around trying to take it all in. As always, the photos don't do it justice, but I sort of tried.