8.2m Rhone trails

Had some hair brain scheme to somehow find Tenke today, but it was never going to work.

I ran straight to the lake today and then into narrows of the lake and down the Rhone to the trails. I used to come here more when based in the old office. I had forgotten how nice the tails were in places and also how technical they are. Tough climbs followed by decents too steep to run. Stairs to go up, then stairs to come down.

I crossed the far bridge for the first time in ages and was rewarded on the far side by loads of land art in the forest, not just a few flat stones piled up, but some more ambitious arrangements that adorned the tree stumps and merged out from the nature so it was not always clear where they began and ended. Very cool.

Also at the corner of the far away field I ran around there used to be a big construction site which has vanished, the stream re-routed and the land repaired. Just a patch of mud where the grass should be gives away the industry that had been here.

Tried to go a shade faster on the way back and just about managed that, although the 8.2m felt ok it certainly was not easy.

Oh yeah, it was freezing too.

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