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Southern French Alps
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H: The House to House Hike. The Southern French Alps - from Chamonix to Bousiéyas. The only thing we have to fear is fear itself. - Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Click and drag on map above to see area around trail. Click here. For large zoomable map. And this naturally leads to the question of safety: if something goes wrong, what happens? And more generally, how dangerous is the H2H, and is there anything that one can do to minimize the dangers through preparation? Chamonix to the Refuge de Miage (1559m).
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Maps
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H: The House to House Hike. The map is not the territory. - Alfred Korzybski. The first, and most important thing I have to say about maps is that Maps Are Not Optional. There are many excellent suppliers of maps for the Alps. You'll want to get either 1:25,000 or 1:50,000 scale topographic maps with hiking trails indicated clearly upon them. The suppliers I used were:. Primarily for Germany and Austria. What happens if your trail is blocked and you have to take another route? Each stage page on this sit...
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Weather
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H: The House to House Hike. There is no bad weather, just bad clothing. - Swedish maxim. I don't entirely agree with the maxim above, but I admire its spirit. Unless you are from Sweden, therefore, you can comfortably assume that you will encounter bad weather on the H2H, and thus weather forecasts will be of some interest to you. Lastly, there is a real sense in which the weather forecast beyond the current day doesn't matter. For another thing, most of the time (for reasons discussed here. Has broad co...
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General Hiking Advice
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H: The House to House Hike. Too often I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen. - Louis L'Amour. This is a small collection of tips and suggestions concerning hiking in general, long-distance hikes in particular, and very specifically the H2H. Very much in the category of FWIW, not gospel. Enjoying Stage 61 (and 62, and.). IMHO the best way to do this is to recognize that interest and understanding occur when reality encounters knowledge. In other words, lear...
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Contact / Impressum
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H: The House to House Hike. Impressum, Contact Information, Legal Disclaimers. The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers. - William Shakespeare. This website is the responsibility of Andrew Orlando, who can be reached at the following email address:. I have no influence on and thus disclaim all responsibility for the content of any and all webpages or websites to which this site links. If you wish to link to this site, I suggest that you link to the home page - http:/ h2h.eurohiker.net.
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Mont Blanc
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H: The House to House Hike. Les Dents du Midi and Mont Blanc – from Lac Léman to Chamonix. A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. - Tim Cahill. Click and drag on map above to see area around trail. Click here. For large zoomable map. You may find that you need to adjust stages on the fly, shortening some, lengthening others, according to where there are rooms available. This accommodation risk factor has two further implications:. Makes this much easier. Moreover, having promised t...
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H2H Home Page
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H: The House to House Hike. In travelling, a man must carry knowledge with him if he would bring home knowledge. - Samuel Johnson.
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Links
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H: The House to House Hike. You can observe a lot by just watching. - Yogi Berra.
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Room and Board
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H: The House to House Hike. I strongly recommend that you leave all portable shelter and cooking equipment at home. As a general rule, you get what you pay for, and if you are willing to pay then you can spend many nights along the H2H in luxury. However, by no means all rooms in the Alps are expensive. Consider the various types of accommodation you are likely to find:. Start around E35 / person / night and go up almost without limit. Pensions / Chambres d'hotes. Youth hostels), Massenlager / Dormitoires.
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Packing and Gear
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H: The House to House Hike. He who would travel happily must travel light. - Antoine de St. Exupéry. This is what I ended up carrying on the H2H. I started off with a slightly different list, but made changes based on experience. Arcteryx XCR. 400g. Not initially on the list, but revealed to be necessary in driving rain - the poncho not being long enough to keep me (and my boots) dry. Next time I might try long gaiters instead, but these also provided some additional warmth so maybe not. 350g I needed a ...
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