Trip Extras: Puy du Sancy

As I've said many times on Hive, I take a lot of photos on trips, and a lot of the time many of them tend to be very similar. I try to avoid being too repetitive in my main travel post on a given destination, so I like to make a separate post with all of my trip extras.

I had a good amount of such photos after our trip to Le Mont Dore and mainly our hike up the Puy du Sancy. Several of the photos turned out really nice though if I do say so myself. Actually, some are what I would consider to be my most Instagramable shots, so I think a second post is certainly warranted. But I'll let you be the judge of that. Let's check out the photos. Here we go!

The first is a photo of the "Grand Cascade" waterfall we saw after our main hike that day. The photo turn out really nice but was very similar to my other shots I took so it is a "trip extra" kind of picture. That's actually the only photo I have from the trip not of Puy du Sancy.

Next is a photo of some heavy clouds rolling over the mountain ridge. It created a really cool effect in my opinion, and I'm quite happy with the photo.

The clouds were particularly nice throughout the day. I really couldn't have asked for better conditions to take pictures.

Nothing beats fluffy white clouds against a pristine blue sky. I could love that type of weather when hiking or traveling in general. But who doesn't really - duh.

The way the sun hit the grasslands of the valley below made for an incredible view in this particular spot.

Whenever I find a good spot like that I always take a lot of pictures there. Lots of different angles and different lenses on my phone - you get the idea.

I can never choose which I like best though, so I always end up keeping them all. That being said - here are multiple shots of the mountaintop chalet restaurant.

The hiking trail was pretty impressive on the mountain. The entire thing from the chalet to the summit was made up of wooden slats and stairs, essentially a long boardwalk.

In the picture above you can see the chalet way below, which gives you an idea of how long the path was. The shot was taken from about 3/4's of the way to the summit, so there was more to go yet too!

Next are a few randoms taken from the ridge and of an interesting rock formation I saw.

The "saw tooth" stones seen in the next two photos reminded me of a sleeping dinosaur or Godzilla like monster partially burried in the dirt. Is it just me or do you see it as well?

Now I'm going to get into a bunch of shots of my wife and dog that turned out really nice.

We found this spot between two mountains that created a sort of natural frame. That paired with a valley below with the sun hitting the golden colored grass - it was a particularly nice look out view point. It's the same spot from the pictures above as well if you hadn't noticed.

We did a mini photoshoot here with me trying some different angles and mixing it up between focussing on my wife or the dog, or both of them together.

I liked how all of them turned out.

I think it was mainly the subject matter.

Well thats it for now. Until next time, thanks for stopping by.