Less than an hour away from the "city" is the Bellodone.  We rendezvoused (notice a new word I am coining in the english language) at 8am, and by 10am were already hiking...The hike goes up to a col where there are a bunch of lakes (in fact 7).  Now someone will explain to me why the bottom lakes are frozen, but the top lakes are not?...a jolie day.