The trip in numbers, for whoever's curious.

6 hiking days, 55.09 miles on foot (headline distance closer to 61 mi before correcting for auto-pause gaps)
+17,786 ft of elevation gain
About 37h 40m of moving time
Average heart rate around 120 bpm
Trip high point: 8,324 ft at Grand Col Ferret

What I carried home

Not the mileage. The thing that stuck was how automatic the breathing practice became by the last stage, something I had to consciously reach for on day one and by day six was just how I walked. That, and how much simpler life gets when your only job for six days is to get to the next valley.