June 14th
Start: above Ballaigues, finish: “La Petite Echelle”
Distance covered: 10,2 km
Walking time: 4 hours 30 minutes
Vertical height: 780 m uphill, 900 m downhill
Sunny at first, but black clouds building up. I started by descending to the Vallorbe customs post from where I left off yesterday. Wet grass, no paths, footsore from yesterday. Then the steep climb up the Mont d’Or (nearly 1400 m high on the Swiss side) along a very “erratic” boundary. Thunder, then heavy rain. I soon had enough and was able to reach the main road between Vallorbe and Le Pont.
Night: Hôtel-Restaurant, La Givrine
Photos: (1) boundary stone 65 in the middle of nowhere on the slopes of the Mont d’Or; (2) boundary stone 67