>>636941Hard to pick a fave but the Tête de Chien above Monaco was pretty memorable.
We were in France to do some work in Monaco. Our rental house was right on the beach at the bottom of Les Pissarelles on the west side of Cap d'Ail. We had a free day and I wanted to hike the mountain the whole time, so a buddy came with me.
Mapped and planned the hike: 3 hours up, 2 down. Six liters of water per dude, because I knew it would be hot.
Halfway there and my buddy wanted to turn back, but we persevered. It was over 100 degrees, no shade, no clouds, just the hot-ass sun. Made it to the top in about 4 hours. Ran out of water before we even got there.
Buddy wouldn't go back down the way we came, too steep. So we started walking to La Turbie, down the back side of the mountain (we had come up the front from Cap d'Ail). Figured we could take a bus back to Cap d'Ail but it was like 3 hours before the bus came so I told him lets walk and maybe someone will give us a ride. No one did, unfortunately.
All in all took 8+ hours to go the whole way. We also stumbled through some giant hogweed and got painful as fuck blisters from it. But the view was awesome and I felt very accomplished doing such a strenuous hike in that kind of heat.
Next time I take more water.
