Chamonix

I was up early to check out Chamonix before our van to Geneva. It seems like a really cool town.

This is the view from the balcony of our fabulous hotel (the nicest I have ever been in). Mt. Blanc is in the background, looming over the town. On the table is my Mont Drus pastry. I really wanted a Mont Blanc pastry but had trouble finding one early this morning, so this is a substitute. It's a meringue made to look like one of the nearby mountains.

This street in Chamonix looks out on Le Brevant, the mountain that we climbed yesterday. In the sky above the chimneys you can faintly see a paraglider. The sky between Mt. Brevant and town is often filled with paragliders.

Chamonix is extra festive this week because it is the start of the Ultra Mont Blanc race. Hundreds of crazy people run non-stop around the trail that took us 1- 1/2 weeks to complete. We saw many people on the trail in training for the race.