Along a mountain track. . .

We went wandering yesterday along a beautiful mountain track at a place called La Moliere.  Fortunately we did most of the climbing in the car as we were about 1700m above sea level.  The trail followed a ridge for about 4 kms, before dropping fairly steeply into a valley filled with grass.  At the top of the ridge, apart from the magnificent views, we were enthralled by the abundance of wild raspberries, and although this wasn't the "gorge day", we did a bit of gorging!  We walked back towards the car through the meadows and we even saw some marmots - weasel/beaver/rabbit like creatures that live in the alpine meadows.  We stopped at a gite for a cold drink and walked back to the car.  We drove down a rather scary road back to a village where we had a beautiful gourmet lunch in a hotel.

We finished the day at the ice hockey, where Villard de Lans - our home team- defeated Mont Blanc 8 - 5.