The cool winter air offers beautiful vistas while the lighting is perfect for picture taking...
On my way up the mountain I ran into these guys, without their shepherd:
Turning around and looking at my starting point, a jagged dragon's spine of limestone in an otherwise flat Rhône Valley.
The clear views extended all the way to the Alps: not a rare sight in the winter:
Above 700m in altitude and towards the summit (1000m) there was a light snow-cover, but not enough to stop my progression:
This is the second last of my reconnaissance hikes for our new self-guided walking holiday through the Calanques of Marseille/Cassis, and here, set beside the town of Aix-en-Provence, the Sainte Victoire Mountain:
