A Wee Wander!

I was feeling a bit full of the cold today so decided to take myself off on an inspiring walk in the direction of 1850. I walked up the road past Barragiste and onto the walking track. I've used this track to get to 1650 from 1550 before without incident so I didn't think it would be particularly difficult. Wrong! I followed the signs carefully through the woods on the pisted trail and took this photo to show how beautiful the weather was (12°C in 1550) and carried on carefully following the trail until it pointed up a narrow, unpisted path into the woods. Hmm, well I thought I'd give it a go like an intrepid explorer, after all Sir Ranulph Finnes would certainly not have been put off by this narrow, unpisted path! Well, pretty soon I was sweating profusely, the 'path' had disappeared, I was surrounded by trees and the soggy snow was thigh deep. I wearily admitted defeat and trudged back to the pisted path - maybe someone was having a laugh with the signposts? Anyway, I plodded on until I reached the road a couple of bends before 1850, and sat down on a tree stump to eat a biscuit and have a drink (water!). I decided I didn't particularly want to walk up the road so I headed back down to 1550 the same way I had come.

On the way back down I got this lovely view of the resevoir in the sun. Chalet Barragiste sits just around the corner from here and 'Barragiste' means dam in French.
I kept going round the dam and I noticed how different Barragiste looks without its hat of snow. It has all melted off the roof in the heat and this photo shows the chalet looking almost summery! The winter version looks very different! I have just realised that the last post and this one are both about the joys of getting lost/my inability to follow directions! Perhaps there's something in that!