We’re Heading Back to the Alps!

After finishing our Tour du Mont Blanc hike in 2017, we immediately began thinking about planning another hike with our hiking buddies, Kevin, Kris, Tom, & Chanda. We LOVE having a goal out there to keep ourselves motivated to work out.

After exploring a number of hikes in the Alps, we settled on returning to Mont Blanc as the hike is so fantastic. We knew our friends would love it, and of course, each time you hike, the experience is a little different. So this spring, we finalized our plan to return to France.

We began our serious training for the Tour du Mont Blanc hike in the beginning of June. Our training consisted of continuing our regular spin classes plus hiking several times a week with a "loaded backpack." We did a lot of our training at Gale Woods Farm which is only about 5 minutes away from our new home.

Sometimes Greg and I would hike alone; sometimes the two of us hiked together, and sometimes we would meet up with others in our hiking group.

We'd often do two loops around Gale Woods Farm (approximately 4.5 miles) where we would take in the beautiful rolling hills and enjoy the farm animals.