Tour du Mont Blanc

Stage 8. Champex - Trient

Monday 19th August 2019

Stage 8. Schedule

	From	To	Distance Km	Time Hrs	Ascent m	Descent m
8-1	Champex (1,490m)	Champex d'en Bas (1,320m)	4.0			190
8-2	Champex d'en Bas (1,320m)	Plan de l'Au (1,330m)	1.0		20
8-3	Plan de l'Au (1,330m)	Alp Bovine (1,987m)	5.0		670
8-4	Alp Bovine (1,987m)	Col de la Forclaz (1,526m)	5.5			470
8-5	Col de la Forclaz (1,526m)	Trient (1,300m)	3.0			240
	Champex (1,490m)	Trient (1,300m)	18.5	5H30	690	900

 

Garmin GPS Actual Data
Champex Lac to Trient

Distance	Time	Elevation in meters
Km	Elapsed Hrs-Mins	Gain	Loss	Min	Max
17.95	6H40	858	1,280	1,280	2,029

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Kath leads the warm up exercises before we leave; not exactly high intensity
Korean pre-walk session but good practice nevertheless

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Heading to Bovine

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Plan de l'Au

Time for a break and to get the wet weather gear off

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Rob ensuring we all get over the tricky bits safely

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Getting busy on the trail

Now we could see the Chamonix valley we felt we are on the home straight

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Alpage de Bovine 1,987m

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Rob waiting patiently as we get stuck into the cake!

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The climb out of Bovine

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Col de Forclaz 1,527m

Hotel Restaurant Col de Forclaz

A stop for a drink

Leaving Col de Forclaz

The path has been taken away by a landslide and has been replaced with a metal walkway.
Trient can be seen below in the bottom right hand corner

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Looking down on Trient below

Trient Church

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Accommodation

L'Auberge du Mont Blanc,
Plan Pro 1,
CH-1929 Trient, Switzerland
www.aubergemontblanc.com
Tel: 00 41 (0) 277 67 15 05

Auberge du Mont Blanc

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Jim, Lesley, Kath and Bob

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