2012 Excursion Reports
Monte Morrone (2141 m) and Fonte della Vena
By Redazione Published: 26/06/2012
I read on some mountain website... (if my memory served me I could quote the author, but I must make amends for this mental blank) … a curious question, namely “whether it made sense to…
Monte Prena by the Via dei Laghetti
By Redazione Published: 04/06/2012
The climb up the Prena by the Via dei Laghetti (the “Little Lakes” route) is a spring classic of classics, when the meltwater from the snow fills a few small pools that form along the…
Light and shadow on the Gran Sasso
By Redazione Published: 14/05/2012
“Are you angrier with yourself or with me for telling you you've put on weight?”I'm hard on my wife at times, but I love her because she puts up with someone like me who speaks…
Monte Etra, redeeming one's own "ego"
By Redazione Published: 14/05/2012
For a good part of our lives we are the makers of our own becoming. No doubt about it, often unconsciously... the problem is becoming aware that through our choices we can more or less…
An exploratory hike on the Monti della Laga
By Redazione Published: 11/01/2012
It would seem that if there's no summit then you can't write a trip report... it's madness. I stay stuck for days without managing to write a line, as if there had been no point…
The Zompo lo Schioppo waterfall
By Redazione Published: 04/11/2011
The Zompo lo Schioppo waterfall, which gives its name to the nature reserve, is a jewel set between the walls of the Monti Simbruini and Ernici.Geographically the reserve lies in the central Apennines, in Abruzzo,…
Monte Terminillo: the Canalino Primo Maggio
By Redazione Published: 04/11/2011
I had been on the Chiaretti-Pietrostefani in poor snow conditions and verglas, a stiff wind had cut our faces every time we came out onto the ridge...Tension had dominated the whole climb. In situations like…
Cima Lepri and Peschio Palombo with an exceptional guide
By Redazione Published: 04/11/2011
Fabio was worried about his knee; he had warned me there was a chance the day would go “udderly” wrong.By way of reply I had reassured him that if the day was going to go…
Monte Elefante, the last little gully on the north face
By Redazione Published: 04/11/2011
And to think that for so long I had foolishly considered Monte Elefante a second-rate little mountain. I had to think again.The aesthetics of the natural setting in its winter dress and the aesthetics of…