A weekend off

The Asinsa association [called ADT for Année du Tigre (year of the tiger, goodness knows why)] organised a trip into the mountains during the weekend, to celebrate the end of the first semester (or more like the end of exams, what do we care about the end of the first sem? :P) So here are a few photos (in chronological order ;) ):

A small waterfall we passed by

The others walking along the path, looking cool ;) (hey, the photographer gets some credit too, for capturing these cool poses! lol)

Nice view of the mountains (looks volcano-ish with all that fog)

Some more mountains (this time I don't know what it looks like)

Nice view of the EDF lake (EDF is the electric company)

Crossing a stream
Those two closest to the stream(on either side) are the "saviours"; they're making the bridge and went on to help the others cross. (we only see their backs here but if you're smart you might be able to see their faces ;) )

In fact the stream was slightly deeper here (like 40 cm?) but less wide, which is why they chose to make the bridge here. Further up it was shallow and some people took off their shoes to wade across (I think the water covered only the feet) Actually I had crossed over earlier, with another "bridge", but for some stupid reason, when they saw another group arriving, some of them threw the branch away so that the others would have to "make their own".

There's one funny thing though; see that guy in the beige jacket? While everyone was discussing how best to get across, to make a bridge, etc, he (who had already crossed over) just re-crossed over to the other side (where you see him now) to help make the bridge. We were like: hey, don't you understand that it's on this side that you need to be? lol And he proceeded to cross over several more times! Don't be too shocked though, they had started off putting a pile of stones in the middle of the stream as a stepping stone (where the log is now) and he used that. You still need a lot of balance though.

You might wonder why we had to cross a stream. We had started out for a calm walk (not counting snowball fights) on a path. However, the real path ended and we continued on a mud one, thinking that it might lead us around the lake back to where we were staying. But then that path ended as well, and we ended up hiking up and down (no, down and up, more like it, with the stream in the middle) on muddy slopes.

(It didn't snow while we were there, but there was still some snow on the ground.)