55.24 Andorra: Pic de la Torradella, a unique experience, not going to forget it.
Pic de la Torradella, the target, viewed from the slopes of El Tartar. Funnily enough, the day before we both stated as we walked in the town that we would love to stand on that peak. Two weeks before, we could not find a trail to the peak. We continued on an alternate hike. I think a conspiracy exists which has manifested itself in the metric versus imperial systems in the Andorran mountains. How do we know this? They say one should listen to one’s body. In our case, it makes twice as much sense as there are not just one but two of us, hence two bodies. This means the second body can verify that of the first. Let’s move forward. When we convert meters to feet in Europe, and it only seems to occur during elevation gain, something gets lost in the mix, well, the conversion. Our bodies, particularly mine, understand and know very well the exact elevation gain once we have trudged up a mountain. Here’s the problem: On most of the hikes in Andorra, many have been between 2,200 and 2,...