Glacier 3000

This was Matt’s favorite day during Barb and Terry’s visit. We drove to Col du Pillon for a day of snowshoeing. We took a cable car up to the top of Glacier 3000 (a glacier that is 3000 metres above sea level – about 10,000 feet). We had a cold but clear day with blue skies and mountains all around us. The snow looked blue because of the glacier ice underneath it. After eating lunch at one of the restaurants at the top of the Scex Rouge Mountain, which means ‘Ruby Mountain,’ we snowshoed to Quille du Diable, a huge rock formation. We had beautiful views of the Alps along the way. Matt even thinks we saw the Mont Blanc, the tallest peak in the Alps. How he can tell one peak from another is beyond me. Also found on top of Scex Rouge is the world’s highest toboggan run, the ‘Alpine Coaster.’ I was relieved that it was closed during winter months as I had had enough motion sickness for the day with the car ride on the windy roads and the cable ride up the mountain.