Windy Mont Blanc

After a fun filled week long mountain bike across the Swiss Alps with my wife, I’m back in Chamonix for some mountain climbing.

I’m now climbing with the mother and son team of Cherie and Cody Oates from Aspen, Colorado. Cherie, 69, is the oldest person I’ve ever had the pleasure of sharing a rope with. The weather forecast for later in the week looked a little dubious so we decided to get right after it and head up to the Cosmiques hut, our starting point, right away without any prior acclimatization. Since they both hail from a Colorado ski town, the altitude was not too much of an issue for them. I think is suffered more from the hastened schedule than they did.

We covered over a mile of vertical on our round trip to the summit from the hut in 6 hours up and 5 to return by the same route. It was quite windy up high, which made for some cold conditions and much drifted, soft snow covering the track.

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