I would like to write some summary of hiking season because we started skiing season and it's after Christmas, it should be middle of winter but actually it's NOT. I have impression that spring is coming. Anyhow I'll make a summary of hiking season and few words about it.I "started" a hiking or tried to went up few years ago with my friend Andrzej z Jaroslawia during the trip to Polish Tatry mountains on motorcycles. It was Sokolica 747 meters above sea level and few mountains in Beskidy and Tatry mountains. It was fun but I didn't find it funny and it didn't give me a pleasure because we completely didn't know anything about it. So we wanted to run on the top and generally it doesn't work. It's funny but it's definitely easier and faster to walk systematically, slowly, without many stopovers but to the target. We didn't have a water but instead of this we had more not important stuff. You don't need to much things to have fun but without some of important it's quite hard to find it's fun. Less stuff more fun! The most important things is comfortable heavy duty boots, good backpack, nice thing is camel bag but plastic bottle is also fine. When it's hot use sun hat, shorts, suncream, sunglasses. When it's cold, windy and rainy weather use jacket, warm cloths, somethings gloves if you have problems with cold hands. Generally it's good idea to use multilayer cloths, breathable trousers with removable parts of legs e.g. from normal one you can have shorts without changing them. Also good is to use poles, especially when you going down... don't mix with Poles (Canadian joke: Do you know the trick how to differentiate them? Put a bottle of vodka, and check who is drawling).
Don't forget that eating is part of useful thing and it's something more than just eating. It's growing up to the point of cult. Usually you do it when you are tired, hungry, you want to take a rest and... you are on the top! Nice view, nature, nice people. You don't need to much.
During my contract at CERN I decided or people forced me to hike to Le Reculet during winter. After that I hated it. On may holiday bank I decided, anyone forced me, to go hiking to Parc du Mercantour. Probably I wanted to impress myself and I still don't know how did I do it! 4 days of hiking. After that I hated it more than ever...! But more and more I started to like it.
Let's have a look for photos from that part of my life:
2006- 03-19 Le reculet
2006- 05- 25 Parc du Mercantour by Anka, Rychu, Karol and me
2006- 07- 10 Le Reculet
2006- 07- 15 Swiss Alps Taeschalp
2006- 08- 18 Jura from back side
2006- 08- 19 Charamillon, close to Chamonnix
2006- 09- 01 Hiking Dent d'Oche
2006- 09- 07 Le reculet
2006-10-28 Bel Lachat, close to Chamonix
2006-10-29 Refuge de Gramusettes
2006-11-04 Via ferrata
But maybe it's not finished yet?
PS. Thanks Maciek and Marie to show me how fine is hiking!
