La Berra
24th May 2009
The plan was to park near Charmey and walk along the ridge to La Berra, it was supposed to be a very small ascent but I parked at a different alpage from the one I originally intended which added a hundred metres or so to the climb.
I can’t recall how many ants you get in an average hill like this, it’s a huge number of course and this lot were certainly pretty industrious.
It’s nice walking along this ridge, we’ve walked in from the other side before which was equally nice, this area is a particular favourite of ours, the pre-alpine scenery is fantastic and there’s a variety to the scenery you lose higher up sometimes.
Looking down to the alpage where we left the car, like a lot of the alpages they do food and drink so we stopped for a beer and bought some of their cheese and ham which we had in sandwiches while out climbing on Sunday, very good!
And a quick detour on the way home to visit the latest local “crag X” at Pont La Ville, the local alpine club section have been equipping it and someone Julie works with tipped us off to take a look. It’s a conglomerate and looks quite good, routes between 4a and 6c so far I think but no topo’, we’ll probably give it a miss until there’s a topo, it’s not ideal for beginners.
Some of the alpine flowers out on the route :
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