Fun fact up until this past weekend I don’t think Tiny Human #3 had ever seen a cow in real life. We crossed that off his bucket list on Saturday when we took a short hike around the top of Mont Salève a mountain in the French pre alps conveniently located about a 30 minute drive from our house. The Salève is one of the dominating views from our street when I am out walking the dog. In fact, according to wiki the mountain is known as the “balcony of Geneva.”
We parked in the parking lot next to a cell phone tower and restaurant (apres-hike beverages are critical to happy ladies). There are a variety of options for hiking around the top of the mountain. M plotted out about an hour long (including cow watching time) loop right around the top of the mountain but if we’d had more time we could have explored a bit of the side of the mountain. Our route took us through fields with delightful French bovine happily eating grass on their side of the wire fence, their bells ringing in the cool mountain breeze. It was a Tiny Human #1 put it, a living cheese commercial. While we probably should have chosen better footwear, it was a good practice hike for longer hikes we are hoping to do this summer.
The ear popping as we drove up to the top should have been a good signal that we were quite high up but the cool breeze still took the Tiny Humans by surprise (note to self, pack wind shells in the Mommy Bag) none the less they scampered over the rocky trail in search of cows with the promise of a jus d’orange et un sirop grenadine at the end of the trail.
Inside the Mommy Bag 