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- Walking through alpine larch forest
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- Rifugio Bonatti has a stunning setting, across from the Grandes Jorasses.
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- Wild blueberries, ripe for the picking
Does hard walking sometimes make you feel simultaneously exhausted and exhilarated; wishing both for the walking to end, and yet to never end; and seeing so much beauty that taking another photograph feels a kind of sacrilege? Day 5 of our TMB walk was like that.
When my mind wanders into that kind of territory, something usually drags my gaze back to earth, and on day 5 it was blueberries! We became expert hunter-gatherers of these little blue bliss bombs, tracking them down even as they tried to hide beneath their dark green foliage.
I also got to visit a refuge named in honour of one of my mountaineering heroes, Italy's Walter Bonatti. His book, "The Mountains of My Life" is a classic of mountain literature.
For those following my account of the Tour du Mont Blanc, there's more about day 5 here:
http://www.naturescribe.com/2019/11/the-tour-du-mont-blanc-5-of-blueberries.htmlcheers
Peter