St Martin en Haut
A few weeks ago, one of my coworkers invited me to go on a hike near Lyon. I was very pleased since I generally love hiking. I had no idea how well-organized it would be. It turns out that many small French villages host scenic hikes every year. This one in particularly was orgaznied by the local bicycling club. Basically, they have set up four different routes: 7km, 14km, 21km, and 28km. If you want, you can also pay for a meal ticket. For the 14km hike, the price was 5€ and included 3 meals.
Although there were some elevation gains throughout the hike, most of it was a pleasant stroll through the woods or countryside.
About about an hour, we reached our first pit stop where we were served bread, sausages, sweets, and juice.
Then it was off to some more hiking through the woods.
We eventually stumbled upon some chestnut trees. Nicole and I gathered a little baggy full of them and later had roasted chestnuts for dinner.
Before long, we reached our second pit stop, based out of someone’s garage.
We spent the last our meandering through the countryside.
Though a pleasant stroll, at times it felt like we were in a great marathon, trying to avoid the huge pack behind us.
After about five hours of hiking and resting, we eventually made it back for some satisfying French Onion Soup.
Tags: France, hikes, Nikon D40, St Martin, St Martin en Haut