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As it was still a little early for lunch, we thought we’d try a short loop trail from and back to Arc 2000, which the map indicated should take around 50 minutes. As you can see from this photo, we hadn’t got far from Arc 2000, but we had already ascended a fairly significant amount, which Judith wasn’t enjoying very much at all.
The trail continued to rise steeply for almost an hour. So much for the 50 minute loop. However, we were sufficiently far along now that it seemed pointless turning back.
Having climbed steeply, the trail turned sharply to descend steeply along the line of one of the winter chairlifts. I expected us to be able to pick up the pace a bit here, but the trail was so steep and rocky that we probably didn’t manage to go much faster downhill than when we’d been walking up.
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