Écrins National Park (French: Parc national des Écrins) is one of the ten French national parks. It is located in the south-eastern part of France and consists in a mountainous region of the Dauphiné Alps, south of Grenoble and north of Gap, shared between the départements of Isère and Hautes-Alpes.
It rises up to 4,102 m (13,458 ft) at the Barre des Ecrins and covers 918 km2 (354 sq mi) of high mountain areas, with high peaks, glacier fields, glacier valleys, alpine pastures, subalpine woodlands and lakes.
Its borders mostly correspond to these of the Massif des Ecrins, delimited by the main valleys of rivers Drac, Romanche and Durance (Wikipedia)
At the end of the valley is a small hamlet called Chapelle-en-Valgodemard. This is a great place to start some hiking. Despite the cold, M'aider kept us warm all night with her standalone diesel heater.
We followed a goat trail up the steep slope and got good views of the town as well as the valley and the mountains surrounding it. The place has a lot of magic, spectacular scenery and obviously quite a bit of history.
Hiking in the shady side from Danno Lahr on Vimeo.
On a closing note, I took the picture below of the town square of Saint-Firmin. We had breakfast in the morning, and drinks later that evening at the restaurant/hotel which happened to also double as a home for the elderly. I thought this was a very cool concept since I do agree that every home for the elderly should have a bar.
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