WWII Forts and other stories

Only a few years ago man was killing man.

Today it's all the same but happening in other parts of the World.

Excellent reference sites for this area : Fortified sectors in Dauphine

                                                              La Place forte de Briançon

08/09 Col du Granon - Fort de Lenon - Fort de l'Olive - Pamplinet - Bois Noir - Lac de Cristol - Porte de Cristol - Col du Granon - La Crete de Peyrolle (La Grande Peyrolle - 2654m) 

 Col de Granon, build yourself some red cells Doina:)

 berghaus/blockhaus

 Forts, Mountains, men, barracks, blockhauses, military roads...

Fort de Lenlon

Fort de l'Olive

Beware of green summer avalanches (Vallée de la Clarée)

Lac de Cristol

Les baraquements du Granon

Blockhaus Col de Barteaux

Home

09/09 La Grande Peyrolle - Col de Granon.

Briançon - Fort des Trois Tetes - Fort de Randouillet - Fort d'Anjou - Casernement Seyte - Fort de L'Infernet  - Casernement la Cochette - Fort du Gondran - Fort Janus - Montgènevre.

Last part of the Peyrolle ridge

the quest for new mountains, arises when I see those new shapes drawing against the sky. Places and names I have yet to discover, great views that delight my imagination

Fort Lenlon

Grande Peyrolle has given me a soft shoulder to sleep on (no way I could find a spot on the ridge or summit:)

arrr :( so sorry...forts and places of memory, closed down, so wobbly they might fall on us. I was astound to find them in pretty bad shape (not to say they were more like ruins).

Fort du Chateau (Briançon)

Fort des Salettes

Fort Dauphin

Fort du Randouillet 

Fort D'Anjou

La Seyte (baraques)

 

burried in his own grave

Fort de L'Infernet

Cochete (Barracks)

Fort Gondran

Gondran (Barracks)

yep, can't help thinking, man takes hold of the house of all mighty deities, the Mountain...and what does he do?

Fort Gondran

Ouvrage d'artillerie Janus

Fort de Janus

Ciao Bella! Monte Argentera - Éperon Campia

the right red line:)

Argentera Massif - Monte Argentera (3297m) - Cime Sud - Éperon Campia

D+++++(for me:)  4c > 4c  IV  P3
descent Via Normale

from Rifugio Bozano - to Rifugio Franco Remondino

As Doina fulfils her task of prête-à-porter  anytime anywhere...and we both adore Italy, we do some trespassing as her 'papiers' are to be ready in decembre...we have important business to attend to. There is pizza, gelato vero et cappucino but most of all there is a buddy and there is MONTAGNA :). Because hearing the name Monte Argentera, sparkled my imagination...there must be something magical going on up there, Argentera...a bright glittering mountain.

Voir en plein écran

All know that sometimes I spend my time asking and begging around to go to the mountains. Sometimes you have to get lucky too, yes it's pouring luck on my head as I find a too good person:), who takes strangers as I to visit the Mountain!

If you're a climber from hell, CornoStella is your place. Some direct lines to the skies.

25/08 Éperon Campia

Here is this year's best time out.

the first hardest climb I got the chance to follow. A real beauty, in a breathtaking place, even for a shaky legs as me.Have to say days like these become unforgettable memories.

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