{"id":3416,"date":"2022-10-23T17:57:47","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T16:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/?p=3416"},"modified":"2022-10-23T17:57:47","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T16:57:47","slug":"walk-wednesday-19-october-2022-at-russin-in-the-canton-of-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/2022\/10\/23\/walk-wednesday-19-october-2022-at-russin-in-the-canton-of-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"Walk Wednesday 19 October 2022 at Russin in the Canton of Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fifteen Ginners and guests plus an adorable black Labrador, Onyx, met in the centre of Russin with even the latecomers arriving two minutes early. We consequently set off punctually at 10am with three \u201cleaders\u201d who had recently done the walk as well as emeritus leaders who knew it well. The steep walk down to the station and over the railway line went well but then an emeritus leader asked which way to go in view of a choice of at least three options. The group agreed to split and to meet at the first hide which was achieved without incident. Indeed, it would have been extremely difficult to get lost as all roads led to the Rhone.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Rhone was flowing fast with little bird life but there were several ponds off the right bank \u2013 the \u00e9tang des Bouvi\u00e8res for fishing – and three (Paul G\u00e9roudet, Jacques Burnier and Maurice Blanchet) collectively known as the Teppes du Verbois for their birds and nature, each with its own hide. Many pairs of binoculars were brought out and many minutes taken looking at the various birds, including swans, red-crested pochards, great crested grebes, coots as well as a grey heron and a great white egret. The light and the reflections against the water were glorious.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We continued towards the confluence of the Allondon with the Rhone where kingfishers were spotted and then up the surprisingly challenging slope to the Vignoble Dor\u00e9 for an excellent lunch. Conversation ranged from how long it would be before Liz Truss resigned (end of the week), leaders who some would like to see out of power or prospects of such before the year\u2019s end (leading contenders were Putin, Bolsinaro, Trump and Khamenei), the benefits of the House of Lords for the man in the street\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More seriously, would volunteers for leading future walks please contact Alan Baker.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A good walk as underscored by a participant who said he would come back with his wife. Another said so would he, before correcting himself to say he meant his own wife.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Participants:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Brian Allardyce, Alan Baker, Mike Clayton, Bryan Clark, Norman Eatough, Tim Goodyear (not lunch), Philip Jenkins, Hubert Pettingell, Mike Price, Richard Saynor, Paul Sochaczewski, Nicolas Ulmer and Mark Warren<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guests:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hugh Pettingell, Eric Williamson and Onyx.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fifteen Ginners and guests plus an adorable black Labrador, Onyx, met in the centre of Russin with even the latecomers arriving two minutes early. We consequently set off punctually at 10am with three \u201cleaders\u201d who had recently done the walk as well as emeritus leaders who knew it well. The steep walk down to the … Continue reading “Walk Wednesday 19 October 2022 at Russin in the Canton of Geneva”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-walks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/55"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3416"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3431,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3416\/revisions\/3431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}