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2009 March 21, 2009 Spring ... .. walk in the snow though! Robi

Brii and mum!

Saturday, March 21 .. day of spring ..

but the mild weather of recent days has been swept away by a cold wind came from Scandinavia ..

we look mum .. and then ... well ... I do not put away the snow shoes! :))

mum called up to the refuge of bold flowers.

the time?

freezing cold with snow? so, ice.

ok .. it's time try a piece of Cai N ° 655,

Castelletto and running from door to Naole Ridges.

we would like to do on Prada, along the ridges to reach the shelter of the Flowers.

told us that there is a path.
the part of the path we wanted to go in the Val di Sacco, we heard about it, but we never were.

well ... not good ... more! we liked it a lot! :)))))

from the car park of the chair of Prada, go down the road to San Zeno, until the first road that turns left .. you can not go wrong .. there are also the colors of Cai on the pole which bears the sign!

indeed .. .. everything is marked can not be wrong ... or even wanting to? :)))

yes, you can make mistakes ... :))))

meters after the first climb, where we leave the paved road and civilization behind us ..

the snow starts here, on the paths leading to the valley .. it's cold and the snow is icy and hard ..

the wind is cold ... and we begin to freeze your fingers ...

(the body is composed of water, goes under 0 ° and starts to freeze)

at some point do not feel more ...

is a very bad feeling ... it makes you think, you pinch the skin, makes you a bad dog ..

even if you move your fingers, you have no feeling and you do not seem to happen at all.

I stopped blowing into gloves ... it's one way to get back a little 'heat in his hands.

(this is a principle of freezing degree, it looks like a cabbage, but it can become serious if no action is taken now, immediately helpful to drink the warm tea, warm up with an extra pair of gloves, blow into the gloves, get massaged by a companion ... but with no attention to violent clutches)

I changed gloves with mum, and she also did a hand massage.

after you come back in a moment ... calde.non me explain it (yet) .. .. I do not know when a scream from the pain of the cold ..

after the time .. you have to remove gloves immediately .. because you're sweating!

aaaaaaaah ... much better! :)))

the path goes up ... (well .. it is a castle halls 68m.sl:)))

TUUUUTTA the 655 is a climb!)

the path widens, it becomes a roadway passes through a forest of beech trees are bare again ... ..
the sun shines through the trees bare .. in the distance we see a clear (!!!), the sun nearly blinds us ..
snow is shining, the sky blue with cirrinuovole *..
we are ecstatic, excited, happy ...
look at us and laugh .. and yes .. but .. we have to take the other!
the photo below is very important ... you see all the tracks in the snow?
is a shrub in the middle of the tracks and go to the right and left ..
if you look closely you see the sign .. CAI .. you see how!
but we laughed ciacole, admiring ... did not we just saw!
we moved to the right where the tracks were more evident and we went on .. the bottom of the valley is beautiful ... .. ture around the rolling hills on both sides are again at the top of the woods ..
in front of us .. it seems interesting to a hill with an opening (the less obvious tracks leading up) ..
we start we start ... up again ... watch the heads bent tracks ..
any one of a large animal that seems ... has a shape of a plantigrade animal **..
the night before and I saw a piece of horror of a group of guys and then crashed in the mountains
eaten by a yeti ... I was thoroughly convinced that they were traces of yetis! :)))
Brii is serious! :))


up from the top you had a wonderful view of the opposite Pizzocolo .. we realize that here is a good deal 'that we no longer see signs of Cai ... until recently was very
marked up in the trees, new signs, just painted ... you can see that the original signs are
under the snow (in fact on the return, where we did the right track ... we have seen some marked stones sprout from melting snow. The Cai marks the stones rising above all, by force ... you do not have the strength to look up ..
you with your head down, his tongue to hang no-telegraph ... .. we want to talk? :))))))

at this point if you're on a mountain you do not know, you MUST go back.
there really is risk of getting lost or getting hurt.
we did experience the Pizzocolo when we fear the wrong way ... pure!
Pizzocolo and we are talking about ... that in fact the sister pretty well.

in this case, the land known, highly visible ridges have a few steps .. decided to go ahead.
we are slipping back a bit and we cut up to a very rapid slope in the woods.
we went out on the road that leads to the two pools Refuge Mondini, Cai No. 51.
that we know, done so many times ..
even if the snow had changed in appearance.
quietly follow the road, admiring the magnificent scenery that surrounds us ...
you get to the huts Ortigara ... I say ... .. if I could go live in that immediately above ..!
is an incredible place, on a small hill, with the ridges that protect the back ..
surrounded by green fields full of flowers (and cows in summer :)))))
Saturday was so ..

over the hill on the left is a small abandoned church ..

is one of the churches / shrines of Our Lady of the Snows on Baldo.

is beautiful ... or better must have been beautiful .. it is now unsafe.

you see on the hill side in the two bushes?

mum on the right is the system boots .. we are facing the last bit of climb.
here we are at and above msl 14oo

was incredible ... that was before mum do not leave any marks in the snow was so icy.

we have not made snowshoes, with a little help to the bottom so hard ..

at some point yes was limp a little, but the climb was steep that it was more dangerous to stay and try putting it

.

mum who came on top of the ridge, he was surprised to not find the path ... indeed found itself in front of a wall of frozen snow.

has really struggled to try to descend vertically to be able to move forward.

I was very worried .. if .. went wrong and end up sliding down to the huts! I was below, waiting to come back down from me.

then we got onto the diagonal, which was a bit 'easier ... one step at a time, sinking as much as possible the tip of the boot (it was so steep that you spit on the tip of the boot, you could not even put down the heel)

but it is not beautiful?

when we found a quiet spot (the wind blew strong and cold, and disturbing that we even moved!) We stopped and ate.

drank the tea, biscuits ..

watched with a heart full of love .. this place is beautiful Lake Garda ..

mum pulled out the binoculars, trying to see if her mom got up (he lives in San Zeno:)))

we did the last piece (finally on the path that was behind the ridges!) Briskly.

the wind was even stronger here on the ridge, and I were again frozen hands ..

is terrible .. I could hardly move forward.

I have put off the stirrers and I put my hands under her armpits.

fast forward, being very attentive to put your feet ..
(one false move and you find yourself in the Hills Valfredda a 800metri below)

(in the distance you see the Chierego)

return we did everything on the ridge, passing near the fort of Naole ..

unrecognizable under the snow .. you only see the antennas and understand where it is.

by walking back ... we saw the lessinia appear in a distance ...

ciaoooo barbara elizabeth ... hello ... it's convenient for them to go to the Giazza Carega.

Barbara told me that the shelter Pertica .. There is so much snow, but much of that snow ..

that will melt in May (it is also much shadow on the road ahead)

eventually fall back down now .... taking a sharp turn to get off laaaarga .

now the surface of the snow was melting rapidly, with the boots sank while

jumped down.

get to the car we see very satisfied!

be redone .. absolutely .. almost .. almost already next Saturday! :))))

thanks mum, beautiful tour :-****

brigidaa_te:

cirrinuovole *: they are soft white clouds, mostly isolated, with clumps or filamentous appearance.

are blue in the sky like feathers or white streaks, as if driven by a light breeze.

(beautiful description from the book "Guide to the weather" by Günter d.roth)

** plantigrade, animal like the bear p.es

examination question that I was wrong! grrrrrrr