Alps Revisited

You may recall my somewhat angry post from the valley of Chamonix earlier this month. I thought I would give a visual to help explain. In the pic below, the red circle is about where I was, the red arrow is pointing generally where I needed to get to... and I should mention that my right knee had opted to administer shooting pains with every downward step. 4000 or so feet down, lightning storm most of the way, ran out of drinkable water at the top. No one to blame but myself, but as you'd imagine... in that moment, it's more fulfilling to blame everyone else. Took about 5 hours to hobble down.

The second picture is the visual equivelant of my frame of mind when I made that post. I may look happy, but look again.