Christmas Day Hike: Colorado Provencal

Hike near Rustrel, Provence, France.
Starting at the Camping du Colorado, along the Sentier du Blaces to Croix de Christol, back along the Sentier Morenas(ca 12 km, 3h).
Nice, easy hike in the provencal country side, through lavender fields, vineyards, forest, nice views, towards end some great ocre cliffs.

Allschwil -> Neuweilerstr.

This was a random short walk for a sunny Sunday afternoon.

We started from the tram stop in Allschwil, continued to Schoenenbuch, crossed the Geiser to Ziegelhof, then passed the Herzogenmatt to end up at the Neuweilerstrasse tram station.

Nothing particularly fancy here, just a stroll through some fields. Still, very nice.

Frick -> Mumpf

This walk, from Frick->Schupfart->Obermumpf->Mumpf was an adaptation of an U-abo hike that would have had us end in Stein. After getting to the Mumpf Flühe panorama viewpoint, we opted to continue to Mumpf rather than heading back a bit and going to Stein.

Total length was just under 4 hours, about 12 km, with about 300m vertical.

Schynige Platte -> Faulhorn -> Grosse Scheidegg

We did this walk in two days, spending the night at the Faulhorn.
Day 1:
Von Wilderswil (584 m) with the cog railway up to Schynige Platte (1967 m). On the Panorama Weg via Oberhornberg (2069 m) and Egg (2125 m) to Mändlenen (2344 m) and on to the Faulhorn (2680 ), stay overnight at Faulhorn Hotel (~ 4 “Alp-Hours”, 5 ½ “greg-and-andrea-hours”)
Day 2:
From Faulhorn (2680 m) via Bachsee (2265 m) to First (2167 m), then to Grosse Scheidegg (1962 m), by bus down to Grindelwald (1034 m). That was an easy, lazy Sunday stroll on a wheelchair-accessible autobahn, but very scenic.


Andrea and I on the ridge just past the Shynige Platte station, Brienzersee in background:

Sägistalsee, Brienzersee in background:

The Faulhorn, with the amazingly exposed Berghotel:

A view across to the Eiger (center-right), and Jungfrau (far right):

Basel -> Riehen

This spontaneous Sunday walk, from our flat to the Wiese and then along the Wiese to Riehen, was pretty short (less than 1.5 hours), but noteworthy because of how convenient it was and because we should remember how easy it is to get to a green walk along a little river.

Also noteworthy, particularly since our bikes and blades get here this week, is that we saw signs for a nice looking rollerblading loop (8.8km) that runs along this stretch.