Dries Buytaert

Photos from September 2025

Small Cessna plane in a hangar with its door open, while a person in a safety vest loads backpacks into the cabin, preparing for departure.
Loading our packs into the plane before departure.

· La Tournette

Two people sit in a Cessna cockpit, watching navigation screens and gauges.
In the cockpit of Ben's Cessna en route to Annecy.

· La Tournette

A paraglider glides high above Lake Annecy, the blue water curving between green hills with small towns scattered along the shore below.
Paragliders circling above Lake Annecy.

· La Tournette

A hiker with a backpack adds a small rock to a stacked cairn on a rocky ledge.
We paused to add a stone to a cairn along the trail.

· La Tournette

View from the trail near La Tournette: mountain ridges and forested slopes, with a small chalet in a grassy clearing below.
The view on our way up to La Tournette, just past Chalet de l'Aulp.

· La Tournette

A green pyramid tent stands on a grassy meadow below a steep rocky mountainside, with camping gear scattered nearby.
Our tent pitched in the high meadows near the old Refuge de la Tournette.

· La Tournette

From inside a tent, an ibex with large horns stands a few meters away in the grass, looking toward the campers.
When we opened the tent in the morning, a bouquetin (ibex) was standing right outside, watching us.

· La Tournette

A narrow hiking trail runs along a grassy ridge toward rocky peaks, then drops into the forest.
The ridge from La Tournette toward Refuge de Praz D'zeures. If you look closely, the trail winds all the way into the woods.

· La Tournette

Wooden refuge kitchen with old moka pots and worn pans hanging on the wall.
The rustic kitchen at Refuge de Praz D'zeures. I loved the moka pots and pans in the background.

· La Tournette

A person rinses muddy rain pants under a tap at a stone fountain.
Axl rinsing the mud off his rain pants at a fountain in Montmin.

· La Tournette

Person stands on a wooden dock at Lake Annecy, facing the water at dusk, with mountains in the background.
Axl standing on a dock at Lake Annecy.

· La Tournette

A laptop open on a small table inside a van, showing code on the screen, with a bowl of cereal and a mug of coffee beside it.
Living the dream: vibe coding from the van over breakfast.

· Miscellaneous