Snow Shoeing in Valsassina
Departing from Alpe Paglio m. 1386, that difference: m 630
Facta, non verba ...
Action, not words ... it was imperative for this tour! Citing a "quip" I met a mountaineer, I did mine too, I repeat ...
The experience should also look for the Positive Negative !
And is it not also experience positive, always new and constantly changing face the mountains in winter, estimated locations and conditions as the Mountain Command is only to obey, even when the weather, as on this occasion , is not how we would have liked. I say ... For better or worse, given the situation, a little 'wind and snow, since we are still in winter, and at this altitude in this area has never harmed anyone, then where is the problem ? The difficulty is that ... We are taken to be the "weaknesses" is no longer willing to "suffer the little" power that allows us to take advantage of these days we say, so-so! However, despite numerous non-participation, we have honored our commitment and responsibility towards those who have granted us their trust, bringing to end a wonderful round trip that took the start as a foot of Alpe Paglio from which they left their car we set off, initially on farm road, towards the Ortighera Alpe, Alpe Grasso, finding further in the direction of the broad saddle of the "Lares Buzz "to drive along the slope of SO Cimone Margno. From the pass, following the ridge we won the Top of Olino alas surrounded by a fog unexplored. Back at the pass, is now reassembled the broad ridge NW overcoming a pair of depressions that led us to the valleys of Margno Cimone, where appropriate staging has allowed the re-consolidation of the row, fragmented by a final steeper part of the ridge. now in slow, steady degradation we have achieved, first, the top of Lake, the finish of the chair "2 °" Pian of the Birches, then, the logical route Paglio Alps, where in front of a steaming bowl of noodles is over the trip.
Marcello