{"id":5921,"date":"2025-05-10T21:14:36","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:14:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/?p=5921"},"modified":"2025-05-10T21:17:02","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T20:17:02","slug":"8-may-2025-the-great-circle-route-from-and-to-the-hotel-du-marchairuz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/2025\/05\/10\/8-may-2025-the-great-circle-route-from-and-to-the-hotel-du-marchairuz\/","title":{"rendered":"8 May 2025 – The great circle route from and to The Hotel du Marchairuz."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

12 good men and true assembled at the Col du Marchairuz for our GIN hike. 2 hounds also assembled who were good in parts but not in the least true!. We had some extremely welcome participants who had not been available recently in the form of Rudy P,  Rob Pashley (again with non matching boots), Thatcher and Peter Drew. Stalwarts include Peter Taylor, Nathan F, Ross Linsley, Mervyn P, Peter Strebel, David Colledge, and Richard Saynor and myself. The canine section was as usual Kobie and Rocco. The weather was somewhat overcast and on the cool side but Peter T\u2019s forecast ice age failed to materialise. No rain fell. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The assembled company set off more or less on time, descending behind the hotel towards the Valley de Joux before heading off to the southwest.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Early in the hike – all happy <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Looking ahead<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Even a bit of sun<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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David, Rudi, Rob, RichardS, Thatcher, Ross, PeterS,PeterD,Nathan, MikeH, Mervyn<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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With PeterT<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

There were a number of \u2018competing\u2019 groups on the trail who were quickly overtaken and we soon reached the turning point where we crossed the ridgeline on to the lake side of the Jura.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The way home<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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Beginning to rise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We then had a gently declining stroll back towards the Col, appropriate for the gently declining GIN members, before beginning the ascent back up to the hotel. The last part of the walk was a fairly steep ascent which split the group for a while before we reunited at the Hotel for lunch. Three had to depart early but 9 of us assembled for lunch in the very convivial Hotel du Marchairuz. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The wine committee<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Beers were had before the Wine Committee (Peter Drew and Thatcher) chose a highly quaffable red. The croute au fromage souffl\u00e9 came highly recommended and the entrec\u00f4te was also approved of, not least by Kobie. Pig\u2019s ears were found most acceptable by both Rocco and Kobie.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Time flew – above us<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

We tried to avoid talking about Donald Trump and mostly succeeded. Lunch can fairly be described as convivial. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kobie was on a training session – how to behave properly in a restaurant – it did not go too well at times…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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The excellent wine arrives<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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We reached a crescendo – really a rather good local wine. 2 bottles sufficed<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Distance walked was approx 11 kilometres and vertical height gained was 350 metres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rob and I did discuss a plan for later in the summer which involve starting at St Cergue and walking to the Hotel du Marchairuz and staying overnight before walking down to the Vallee de Joux and taking a train back via Vallorbe. Early stages but we are thinking of perhaps July. We will do our research and come back with a firmed up proposal.  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

12 good men and true assembled at the Col du Marchairuz for our GIN hike. 2 hounds also assembled who were good in parts but not in the least true!. We had some extremely welcome participants who had not been available recently in the form of Rudy P,  Rob Pashley (again with non matching boots), … Continue reading “8 May 2025 – The great circle route from and to The Hotel du Marchairuz.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":86,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hikes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921","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\/86"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5936,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5921\/revisions\/5936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ginclub.website\/home2\/gentsinnyon\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}