Sunny morning. We crossed road into the Carrefour supermarket
and bought goodies before climbing steeply out of village through woods
to reach a plateau and then the ski centre. The peak loomed before us, but we put one foot in front of the other and carried on.
We and two French guys had a little trouble finding our way
out of the centre. (Go to the right of road and head towards pyramid
where you pick up the red and white stripes.) It was a long easy climb to the summit on muddy tracks. We had good views from summit though there was haze in the distance.
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| Neil playing Beau Geste. |
We started down the south slope which was covered in deep
snow, although the north slope was almost snow free(?). We found the route more by luck and following other people's tracks and
went steeply downhill in a stream.
We followed the stripes into the hamlet of Finiel and had a Cornish afternoon with great piles of granite boulders scattered like cannon balls in the fields. The hills in the background are the Cevennes.
The path was interesting and steep. We'd noticed on several days that we could see our destinations, long before we got there, but the steep descents into the villages were such that it always took us longer to get there than we expected.
Le Pont de Montvert has a Mediterranean feel about it and it was surprising to see people in shorts and T shirts sitting on the café terrace. We met Celine, the young woman from Cheylard. We found our hotel over the bridge. We stopped in the Auberge des Cévennes. We had an enjoyable meal of soup, pork fricassee, cheese and creme caramel that evening.
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| The Auberge des Cévennes is the building with the balcony |
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| The bridge at Le Pont de Montvert where dreadful things happened in the name of religion. |
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