Day Trip to the Pyrenees

Recently, when we rented a car over the weekend, we took advantage of having wheels and headed to the Pyrenees for the day to check out a few of the local ski towns such as Panticosa and Formigal. Panticosa is small and family friendly, sort of like Pat's Peak in Henniker, New Hampshire. Formigal is much bigger and looks like Squaw Valley in Tahoe.

Photo: The beautiful Pyrenees


While it's been pretty mild in Zaragoza in terms of weather, the Pyrenees were snow covered and chilly even though they are less than 2 hours outside of Zaragoza. Formigal is right on the Spain-France border. We drove across to France and had planned to find a place for dinner but the falling snow got the best of us, and we turned around before our little Volkswagon Golf slipped off the curvy roads.

Photo: Formigal ski lodge in background. We scoped out the ski places so we have a good lay of they land when we ski in a few weeks.





















Photo: Parker was thrilled when we spotted numerous mountain goats. They are hearty creatures living in the snow and cold.











Photo: End of the day -- grabbing tapas in a local cafe in Jaca