some recent ecrins pics

The Parc National des Ecrins is a stunning and wild national park which is an hour or so away from Grenoble. To get there, you drive southeast, breathing the heady and strangely sweet fumes of the chemical plants in Vizille, and up to Bourg d'Oisans. Heres a random picture from St. Christophe en Oisans.



The end of the road that goes through St. Christophe is La Berarde: a starting point for many hikers and climbers in the summer. I love la berarde. It's everything Chamonix isn't: corrugated steel roofs, small roads, no telecabines, and no patagonia outlets next to six other gear stores for fat tourists. Its unpretentious and unspoiled (for the moment).

I'll leave you with another photo of la dibona...