Zinal -> cabane du Petit Mountet
5th June 2008
It really didn’t look very promising today, the forecast was bad and there was a lot of low cloud. Yesterday had been awful really, raining all day and not really worth going out. So, meeting David again, we had a slightly late start with a vague plan to walk up the valley and explore a couple of options there.
We started with a quick side trip to the copper mines, in season they run tours around here but neither of us had been here before. It’s about 100m climb up from the main track and then just a straight walk back down. The weather was not brilliant but it looked worth continuing so we set off for the cabane de Petit Mountet with a plan to have lunch there.
I got some water in my boots the other day from the snow high up, fortunately they didn’t get so wet that flowers grew in them.
It was in the afternoon after we’d left the cabane that the most amazing thing happened, but you’re going to have to read on for that……
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