This was this week's hike--La Dent de Crolles, which means "Crolles' tooth"--depending on what angle you are looking at the mountain, it looks like a molar and the town at the bottom is "Crolles". We started our hike at 8am, once again taking a bus up to 1000 meters to the beginning of the trail. We really liked this climb up to 2000 meters. There was a nice combination of open areas, wide forest paths, some rock climbing with a cord, and very interesting landscapes. We even saw a wild mountain goat.
This was a fun passage way. The rocks above are very stuck where they are!
When we got to the top at noon, we just caught sight of a para-glider taking off (blue on the left side of the picture). In fact, several people had done the climb with the 10-20kg. paragliding pack on their back (it all fits into a very, very large backpack). That made us pause when we were huffing and puffing with our light back packs carrying our picnic lunch, water and jackets! We actually did quite a bit of huffing and puffing towards the top because of the altitude.
The highest point often has a cross, as is the case here. Behind Otto is the imposing Mont Blanc.
We just had lunch at the edge and Otto is resting. There was snow at the top--you can see it at the edge, which drops at least 400 meters (see the first picture). We didn't even try to peer over the edge, but we did put some snow down our backs to cool ourselves down.
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