Ascent: 650m
Weather: blue skies, cold wind
Free day. Later start, we went for a potter around St Veran village, which is very picturesque (and looks like a complete firetrap, if one were feeling critical.) We left the village at about 10:30am and followed the La Blanche track up to the Refuge at 2500m. The route is a nordic ski track, although we saw more walkers than skiers, at least on the way up.
It was very sunny and warm on the way there, and distinctly windier and colder on the way back. The col where the refuge sits is certainly white. We stopped for a hot chocolate and got a bit cold, then got really cold, then put lots of warm clothes and mittens on and walked really quite fast (snow shoes carried but not needed all day) until we warmed up a bit. We had lunch sitting by an old mine building and as we were leaving, our crumbs were cleared up by a little alpine sparrow type bird (to be identified later.)
We got back to St Veran at about 4pm.
Dinner was tomato and basil soup with baguette, turkey stew with rice and apple and berry crumble. The photo of the bird from lunchtime was shown around the room and identified as possibly an accentur, possibly an alpine accenteur and possibly spelt altogether differently.
I won at Uno.
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