mountains – Lo Vedo Life

Altitude adjustment

Like much of the world, the South of France has been experiencing an unusually hot summer. A few weeks ago when we hit a particularly hot stretch, I started looking around for a place where I could break the cycle for a few days. At heart, I’m a mountain girl (montagnarde in French), and when some friends recommended Andorra, I jumped. It offers stunning mountains, high elevations, dry air and my favorite: a high barometric reading. So I threw a bag in the car and drove to the hills for an Andorra altitude adjustment.

Color of the Year

Pantone’s Color of the Year
Every so often, I write about the Pantone color of the year. It’s a little piece of light news amidst what is otherwise a not-so-fun news cycle.

For those who haven’t heard of Pantone, it’s an American company with a color matching system that’s widely used across the fields of graphic design, printing, fashion, product design, textiles and manufacturing.

… Cue the drumroll …

Road Trip, Day 9

The summit of Puy de Sancy, 1,885 meters (6,188 feet).

It’s been several days of rain, clouds I could nearly touch, and no sign at all of the mountains I’d come to hike. All that changed when this morning dawned sunny and bright.

I drove to the Sancy téléphérique (cable car), joined around 20 masked people inside, and we all got whooshed up the mountain. Coming out, we were faced with a very long wooden stair path that climbed up and curved toward the summit, adding 110 meters (360 feet).