Keith and Pete headed off at 7:30am to do the Grotte de La Luire which, since it had a 9:00am start and also involved 230 feet of fixed iron ladder on the exit (my arms still weak after recovering form a long period of shoulder injury), Karen and I decided not to go. Instead we got the map out and went for part of a circular route in woods on the mountainside above Lans en Vercors.
We stopped at an auberge to have a coffee and myrtle berry tart, which was lovely. We followed signposts to "La Belvedere" (view point) and when we got there, the view was mostly blocked by trees!
We wandered back to the original route and passed above the auberge and followed a track passing some bolted crags with kids being given rock-climbing instruction. After passing a skiing car park (obviously only used in the winter), we followed the road down to where we had parked the car.
We rang Pete and Keith and they were just booking in at the cave registration tent after their trip, so we arranged to meet at a cafe and have some coffee. As we were heading for the cafe we met Simon Brooks who had just arrived from his home in Ashbourne to stay for a couple of days as he was giving some talks about his caving trips. After the coffee we went back to the gite.
In the evening we we met Simon in the Speleobar and he came back with us to sleep on the sofa in the gite.
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