Alpine Lakes around Grenoble

Since moving to Grenoble I’ve been doing some hiking in the Alps, and occasionally stumbling across some of the georgeous alpine lakes of the area. As I was looking for new potential locations to hike to, a friend from the photoclub at work started doing a lot of alpine lake photography - and I started making a note of some of the places he visited, along with lakes that I’d visited, and a few I’d spotted on Google Earth and Panoramio.

I’ve now captured a Google My Map of >50 of these… Click through to the full post to see the map or grab a copy in Google Earth

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The joy of a twitter search for Chartreuse

I just love the surreal mixture of messages you get on twitter in response to a search query. I have a search-column configured in hootsuite to give me the results of a search for “Grenoble OR Chartreuse OR Belledonne OR Vercors OR Alps -Bieber”.  

I get all the news about Grenoble, along with weather alerts, and notifications of when the peasants are revolting in Villeneuve; along with discussions on the best cocktails using Chartreuse; what people are buying in the color Chartreuse; something technical about ALPS which I still don’t understand; and occasionally people enjoying the mountains that surround my home in Grenoble.

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