There is possibly nothing more socially distanced than spending a night alone in a polar shelter.
Perched on a mountain top at 1830 metres above sea level, with Lake Annecy sparkling in the distance and pine tree speckled peaks protruding through cloud inversions, these particular shelters may not be quite so hostile.
Although, for me, finding them in the first place is part of the challenge.
After a 50 minute drive from Annecy, we reached the bottom of the La Sambuy ski lift in the small, former farming town of Seythenex in the
Annecy Mountains and headed upwards along a forest path, the smell of pine filling the warm early evening air.
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The wind was picking up again, so we got to work. I climbed up on the step-ladder, Susan held the swarm box open, and I started gingerly pushing bees into it with my gloved fingers.
Of course, since bees can fly and apparently think for themselves they didn’t all just fall in line and tumble into the box at my urging. A lot of them buzzed around us, some landing on our bee suits, while others continued to cling to the tree branch.
A swarm of 2,000 to 3,000 bees clings to a low-hanging branch on an old live oak tree. (Susan Riparetti photo)