Trip to Lacs Robert and Archard in Chamrouse

Today, I went to the Chamrousse mountains with a group of people from xrce. These are the same mountains that I can see from my apartment window. The place is a popular ski station in winter and in summer people usually hike around the lakes as we did today.

We took a bus to the top of the mountain ....yeah it is too high to hike all the way from down :) and there was a wood festival going on there...we could see men sharpening their axes and also people carving statues out of wood with a electric sawing machine...they were competing in the wood carving competition.


We then took a cable car to the very top of the mountain....(it is very high, we had to conserve some energy to hike around the lakes)


View of Grenoble far below...


Us marching on to lacs robert! I was trailing behind..
The snow had mostly melted, but there were a few patched in some crevices and also we could see a glacier in the distance...


The lakes..view from the top where we had a little picnic.



We stepped in the water for a bit and it was icy cold. I guess if we were brave we could have had a swim, but we were afraid that once we got out of the lake we would freeze because of the wind.

We then continued on to lake Archard...


Finally, we headed back to the bus.....phew...exhausted!
..The route we took was somewhat like this... http://randoalpes.free.fr/lacsrobertachard/texte.htm