Jenn Fields

Anyone planning a sojourn to a stage of the Tour de France should bring the following three things: a bottle of water, a sense of humor, and an escape plan. We hopped on a train in Chamonix to head to Annecy on Thursday, where the final time trial of the Tour was held this year. [...]

Filed under: Such as it is, Workation France on July 28th, 2009 | No Comments »

I was sick of being sick. We’d been in France for about a month, and I’d been sick most of that time. Just as I started to feel better, I came back from visiting our friends in Hamburg with an upper-respiratory gunk. In late June, a bright morning sun shone over Chamonix and I glared [...]

Filed under: Climbing, Such as it is, Workation France on July 4th, 2009 | 2 Comments »