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Mission accomplished! 
Every day here I keep thinking we will never top yesterday and every day it seems we do. Today was kind of a finale and to say it didn’t disappoint would be a gross understatement. I think today will go down as one of the best in a long history of motorhoming and biking. Up there with the Col De Tourmalet, Cirque du Gavarnie etc. Today was also our last col and really the last chance to see Mont Blanc in all its glory after for a week now it has eluded us.
So the Col Du Joly then. The sat nav was hopeless as was my carefully planned route. The GPS gave up, the data and phone signal gave up and we followed our noses. Slowly we wound our way up what looked from lower down as a totally impossible ascent and all the advice from various sites and chatGPT was wrong. The road was paved all the way to the top but it was a proper goat track in places.
The sudden view from the top though as we crested it was absolutely jaw dropping. As close to Mont Blanc as you could get and stunning clear blue skies!! At last!!
After a very late lunch the afternoon and early evening was taken up with a ride up to Lac de Saint Guerin and while Michelle walked the lake I took off in a Kayak around the lake and down the gorge. Stunning but an hour was enough. My back was aching and I think I was once again nearing my limits. The Alps is absolutely knackering. You can’t seem to do anything without it being strenuous and pretty feckin dangerous to be honest. The lake seemed bottomless, even at the edges and no way to get out if you fell in and probably no chance of rescue. At over 5000ft it was flaming freezing as well.
No Marmots sadly but a Golden Eagle!! Crap photo I am afraid.
Its now time for an ice cold Grumbleweed me thinks! Awesome.
A few pics
Every day here I keep thinking we will never top yesterday and every day it seems we do. Today was kind of a finale and to say it didn’t disappoint would be a gross understatement. I think today will go down as one of the best in a long history of motorhoming and biking. Up there with the Col De Tourmalet, Cirque du Gavarnie etc. Today was also our last col and really the last chance to see Mont Blanc in all its glory after for a week now it has eluded us.
So the Col Du Joly then. The sat nav was hopeless as was my carefully planned route. The GPS gave up, the data and phone signal gave up and we followed our noses. Slowly we wound our way up what looked from lower down as a totally impossible ascent and all the advice from various sites and chatGPT was wrong. The road was paved all the way to the top but it was a proper goat track in places.
The sudden view from the top though as we crested it was absolutely jaw dropping. As close to Mont Blanc as you could get and stunning clear blue skies!! At last!!
After a very late lunch the afternoon and early evening was taken up with a ride up to Lac de Saint Guerin and while Michelle walked the lake I took off in a Kayak around the lake and down the gorge. Stunning but an hour was enough. My back was aching and I think I was once again nearing my limits. The Alps is absolutely knackering. You can’t seem to do anything without it being strenuous and pretty feckin dangerous to be honest. The lake seemed bottomless, even at the edges and no way to get out if you fell in and probably no chance of rescue. At over 5000ft it was flaming freezing as well.
No Marmots sadly but a Golden Eagle!! Crap photo I am afraid.
Its now time for an ice cold Grumbleweed me thinks! Awesome.
A few pics
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Sun came out about 3pm. Not too bad now. Super quiet up here. Spent most of the day plotting stuff and still not sure what we will do. Lake Bourget Monday though. I think. 
