The elderly couple were fit enough to have climbed up to the mountain hut, but who knows at what speed. They were sprawling in the sun after eating a sandwich and a banana, and it was a bad omen that I ...
Finally a clear Sunday was announced. I brushed up the text message that Danilo had sent me during the week to propose a hike in the mountains. It read: "Climb to Mount Barbarossa starting from the hamlet ...
It is a mountain name I often heard pronounced when we spent a week at Foppolo during summer holidays in my childhood, but I’d never climbed it. When I was deciding on Saturday what to do together with ...
What I am most glad about of today’s hike is that we decided to do it on Saturday rather than Sunday. It was one of those knackering experiences that need at least one decompression day of complete relaxation ...
The weather forecast wasn’t promising at all. Probably it wasn’t even reasonable to leave for a two-day hike, but we mustered the guts to make our plan come true in possible adverse conditions. After all, ...
In my opinion the mountain hut par exellence in the Orobian Alps is rifugio Curò. It’s set at 1915 m amid stern mountains in a place where the exposed dark rock face makes the mountains look particularly ...
Yesterday's hike left me with slightly sore legs, which is usual, and prickly eyes because it was a sunny windy day. I went up to the Laghi Gemelli hut from Roncobello, a couple of hours' hike, and like ...
... boots. The lake was unimpressive, at least compared to the dark mountains that you can see around.
They are the highest of the Orobian Alps, Pizzo Coca being the tallest with its 3052 m. ...
For the third consecutive Sunday we’ve gone hiking in the mountains in a weather that’s got better and better. This time it was cloudless, if not perfectly clear, and I’m very glad it wasn’t, because ...