Mont Saint Victoire

wow! this mountain is huge. i definitely can see it from my dorms and it is like 10 miles away. it is like stone mountain but on the alps scale.
so i met up with heather and a couple of her friends at la rotunde, in the middle of the city, and we hopped on the bus for st victoire. it only cost 1.10 euro each way, and was like a 20 min ride. petty good price i think. well so we had no map of the mountain but we could see the top from the bottom. its way up there. The climb started off nice and easy for like the first 20 mins, and then we really hit the mountain. i mean it starts going at like a 70% grade up. crazy! we were climbing over boulders, sliding on the rocks, and trying to take pictures all at the same time. one rigorous climb. but we made it to the top. oh yeah, while we were climbing there seemed to be a huge storm on the horizon. and guess what? it started to head right towards us. but we got to the top first, and got a bit of shelter. but it was soo cold and windy, and now wet. but eventually it passed, well just the rain. and we explored the peak a bit. there is a huge cross up there that you can see for miles, and we were now standing right next to it.
the views were spectacular to say the least. just when we were really enjoying our mountainous feat, some french people came over one of the cliffs. they had climbed the even steeper part by way of ropes and caribeaners. man that had to be hard. maybe next year. lol, no way. the part we did was hard enough.
but we started to head down, we had to catch that bus back to town. the climb down was about 30 mins quicker, but none the less treachorous. we made it all in one peace, and with nothing but a few scrapes and some great memorioies.
this was a lot of fun, i would love to take any of you up it if you visit me. there are some easier trails to the top, fyi.