Family walk in the Chambaran in the fall

With its varied landscapes interspersed with wide openings on the Alps, the Vercors, the Chartreuse, the mountains of the Ardèche and the Lyonnais, the forest of Chambaran presents in all seasons a very particular charm, a cachet of its own. But it is in autumn that it finds its peak: revived by the freshness of the first rains, the dapper green moss illuminates the undergrowth with large cushions from which sometimes escape the brown head of ceps. plump, a real treasure for gourmets with baskets! The paths are covered with a down of leaves rustling underfoot, the branches come in a sumptuous monochrome of warm hues, and the autumn sky reflects the rolling of its clouds on the mirror of the ponds. Everything here brings me to serenity: the song of the wind in the fir trees, the scents of resin mingling with that of humus and wet leaves, the reddening of the peaks in the cool of the evening, emerging from the mists of the valley. For nothing in the world would I miss a show imbued with such majesty...

Marie Chioca, author and photographer