Il blog non l'ho finito, ma continuo ora...
..These two days in Valgrande were really fantastic. A full immersion in the nature since the first night. We arrived at the head of Valle Loana, before the last, steep 500m climb. We set up our sleeping bag under some beach threes, over a leaf bed, and with a view on the starling ski. It was already dark, so we lighted up a fire and we had dinner in front of it...the best restaurant in the world wouldn't be more satisfactory to me.
I woke up at dawn, then I slept again for half an hour. We were close to a small stream, and we used water to prepare tea and to wash ouserlves..the water temperature was freezing..
Then we started the path and it was really nice and well traced, it has been used for centuries to bring cattles on the medows.
Almost at the top of the ridge we found two houses that we mistook for the CAI shelters, but they weren't. It was the private house of a butcher, his cattles grazing in the area, and a stable. He and his friend were very kind and they offered us the warm of the fireplace (I was completely sweaty) and coffee, with alchool if you liked.
Inhabitants of mountainous areas are often told to be hostile and diffident, but these were not at all, as well as the other people we met during the crossing of the valley.
After recovering our energy we left and we reached the shelters at the top. Probably we wouldn't have found any place the night before because it was full of people.
Then we went downhill, meeting the white Piemontese cattles, and after that we reach a relative plan area where another heard was grazing, and where we saw a lot of damages produces by wild boars to the grassland. On the other slope we observed some chamoises. There should be a lot of them in the valley, but it was already warm and they were in the shadow near the rocks.
Again we walked downhill, down and down, in the forest, with the rumble of rivers close to us.. I couldn' think of doing again the same height gap uphill..
Finally we reached a wooden bridge on the river and we stopped ther for a while. ......(to be continued)