Adventure Stories
Trail running Courmayeur to Chamonix over three days
Trail running Courmayeur to Chamonix over three days

While most other people make the plan to do the Mont Blanc loop, i.e. the Tour du Mont Blanc (TMB), our ideas usually end up compressing time. So the plan was to do ~100km of the TMB (and ideally the UTMB ultra-running route which has some small detours) over 3 days.

Courmayeur to Chamonix (trail running): Day 3 - Trient to Chamonix
Courmayeur to Chamonix (trail running): Day 3 - Trient to Chamonix
Courmayeur to Chamonix (trail running): Day 2 - La Fouly to Trient
Courmayeur to Chamonix (trail running): Day 2 - La Fouly to Trient

….what goes up must go down and from the summit col, it's a 750metre descent into the village of Trient before finding our night's accommodation: L'Auberge du Mont Blanc. For future reference to any other people replicating this adventure: this Auberge HAS A SAUNA!!!!!!

Courmayeur to Chamonix (trail running): Day 1 - Courmayeur to La Fouly
Courmayeur to Chamonix (trail running): Day 1 - Courmayeur to La Fouly

Have we all the right gear? Have we too much? Too little? Can we do it? Is this daft? As always at the start of something unknown. My only comfort was that we had the two most critical items: our passports and a payment card in the event we needed to bail off the route early and get back my public transport to Chamonix!

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The Ballyhoura Ultra: run report

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Siurana: February 2018
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Notes from 3Dcamp Dublin (Virtual & Augmented Reality) & Irish VR meetup, February 2018
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Notes from talk: Digital Disruption - business model disruption and the human cost
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