Windy Hike

Lac d'Allos from
Montagne de l'Avalanche

I had a nice, long hike in the Mercantour today and there were two notable things. 

The first was the wind - at 2300m it was quite strong (maybe 20kph gusting to 40kph) but just 300m higher it was scary (I'd put the gusts at around 100k). The soundings predicted a high wind day, but nothing like as strong as it turned out. 

Big crocodile climbing
Col de la Petite Cayolle

The second thing was the number of hikers. You normally don't see that many hikers in the Southern Alps but there were lots today. I passed some big crocodiles and said lots of 'bonjours'.