Tour de Mont Blanc Trail Run Odyssey (Or, how we traced a 100-mile line of sunshine through three countries)
Guided by Giles Ruck
Blue skies, swift ascents and gorgeous trails - with plenty of pie, coffee and outstanding panoramas to fuel our journey and keep spirits high. Ours was a fabulous trip with memories to last a lifetime.
Getting ready to roll, at St Michel Church in Chamonix, the traditional start and finish of the Tour du Mont-Blanc.
Some days on the Tour du Mont-Blanc, you can get stuck in a traffic jam.
Mindy, are we having fun yet? Location: High above Chamonix in the Aiguilles Rouges Natural Reserve.
“Chamonix Air Traffic Control? This is Run the Alps, requesting permission to land on single track.”
The real reason so many of us trail run! Laura finds some pizza in Courmayeur. (We’d show you photos of the breakfast at Hotel Bouton d’Or, but you’d probably bite your screen.)
Did we mention…
…that this group was highly adept at posing for photos?
Keith and Giles cool off in water that was glacier just a few hours earlier.
Laura tests escape velocity in the Aiguilles Rouges Natural Reserve. (A bit higher, and she might have landed right in Chamonix!)
On the last day long the TMB, we took the trail less traveled, and that made all the difference!
Jennifer, Keith, Kersten: The family that trail runs together… takes Ibuprofen together!
… and here they coming, rolling back into town. (Clearly the gentleman on the left was intentionally photobombing us!)