A long walk in the Vaud country

 

 Picture from an earlier march

Date: 25 Jun 2013
Start: The Marcolet houses, Crissier, 0745h
End: The shore of Lac de Joux, Le Pont, 1825h
Distance 31.6 km; Elevation span 794m
Highest elevation: Col de Mollendruz 1187m

Elevation profile

Localities: Crissier / Bussigny-près-Lausanne / Bois-Gondou / Vufflens-la-Ville / Gollion / Senarclens / Chavannes-le-Veyron / Cuarnens / Mont-la-Ville / Le Pont (town in L'Abbaye commune)

 Natural landmarks and towns

 The catholic church of Saint-Pierre, Bussigny (earlier march)

From Bussigny looking to Bois-Gondou (earlier march)

Where a passing gramps called me out and said, laughing: "Paris is in the other direction!"

No luck there, gramps.

 The edge of Bois-Gondou

I realised that the Route Cantonale was not pedestrian friendly.

Never mind, I took a detour. The detour was also pretty dangerous and illegal.

 Bois-Gondou inside

A place where you greet everyone you see, the perfect EPFL antidote

 A big slug.

 Crawling out of Bois-Gondou, going to Vufflens

 Got out of Vufflens, going to Gollion.

Organic Farmer's market spotted.

 I had forgotten to take a picture of Vufflens from the inside

 

Goats coming to bother intruders

 

You have no idea what it was like to have nothing between you and those cows

 

Wordless staring

 

Senarclens.

Not much to do here, also not many people.

Where were all the people? 

 

A patch of sun.

 

In the town of Cuarnens.

 

Going into Bois-Sainte-Marie

Bois-Sainte-Marie also has a pilgrimage route 

 

Lausanne is by the lake

 

 Now I was in the mountains

Don't park tanks in the Juras!

 

The highest point

 

Almost there

 

Very handsome slug

 

Cows near Le Pont.

Here around 4-5 pm, the feeding time

Cows crowding around the paths

I had the nagging feeling that they would charge at me, but they moved aside politely when I came

then stared at me as I moved through the herd

Their bells made a terrible din, like a gamelan apocalypse

 

Legs on fire at this point, but very happy

 

A reward for the 32km long walk

 

Le Pont

 

This way is home (by train!)