I had been wanting to explore Ardèche for some time, so when a good friend and I finally had two days to do it, we knew we would have to be selective. There is far too much to see in one weekend, and trying to do everything would have defeated the point. We chose a handful of villages, left some room for walking and wandering, and knew that at some point we would head towards Villefort for the activity I was most looking forward to: the Via Ferrata above the lake. What I hadn’t expected was how much I would enjoy everything that happened in between. For anyone unfamiliar with…