Hike!

On Sunday I noticed that there was an odd increase in air traffic over Chambery. I'm not sure if it is just that I haven't noticed it before or what, yet there were many planes flying in. I took a mini hike on Sunday to catch up on my hiking. It was a really nice day so the hike was great, good enough to want to go hiking the next day.

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Yesterday I went hiking with my Japanese friend. It is actually a pretty funny story. I arranged for us to go hiking the night before but we really didn't know where yet. That morning I asked her where she wanted to go. Her response: "I want to go to the Cross!!" So I I told her that we would have to leave right away, I met up with her at her place. We took the bus to the Carrefour stop and bought some supplies need for the hike. The next stop was, well the cross, sort of. She asked me where we were going next and I replied, "the cross". She mildly freaked out by the distance and asked me if there was a bus. I said no and told her that she said she "wanted to hike to the cross" so that's what we were doing.

After having a good laugh at looking at what was ahead of us we had to make a choice. She is a real trooper so we decided to still go for it. It is funny the things that crash through with the language barrier at times and the best thing to do is just laugh. So we laughed our way along for a little while and eventually she became more and more tired. Yet she really enjoyed everything that she saw along the way. It is a really nice view of Chambery and the day seemed like it was more like april or may than January. I asked her how many times she has hiked. She said two times...in her life. Ha ha, so this made it round number three.

She has a very strong amount of energy in her so she wasn't completely backing down from the adventure. She tackled that mountain with the best of spirit a Tokyo girl could offer. We took a little break for a picnic at Lovettaz. The picnic was a great meal that consisted of bread, cheese, and chocolate! We were pretty hungry by then so it was all really good.

Eventually we pushed our way to make it to the waterfall. The waterfall was at its best due to the hot day and a lot of snow melt. It was a good enough destination to make the trip worth it and she was quite pleased with the journey, yet all around exhausted.

We made our way down the mountain to watch an amazing sunset to and amazingly beautiful day. We took the bust back from Carrefour and I said goodbye. After 6 hours of hiking she was ready to sleep and I was ready to eat a meal or two. It was a really nice day.