We're back home from our trip to the Mercantour and St Martin-Vésubie, with a real computer and our Piagu Peak hiking photos sorted out.
Here below is our friendly chamois, watching us from about 100 m away.
Going back in time a couple of years, here's a photo of a closer chamois, during a hike up another valley very close to here.
The most widespread wildflower we saw during our hike was the Rhododendron ferrugineum, for which we've now found a common English name: Rusty Leaved Alpenrose. We passed many, many hillsides covered in large swathes of this very low bush.
On the same day we found a few of these beautiful blue Alpine flowers, the Stemless Gentian (Gentiana acaulis, G. kochiana).
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